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Day 300 and 34
After this, David defeated and subdued the Philistines by conquering
GA and its surrounding towns.
David also conquered the land of Moab and the Moabites who were
spared became David's subjects and paid him tribute money.
David also destroyed the forces of Hey dad, ISR, king of Zoba.
As far as Heath, when, hey dad, ISR marched out to strengthen his
control along the Euphrates River.
David captured 1000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, and 20,000 foot soldiers.
He crippled all the chariot horses, except enough for 100 chariots.
When Aramean from Damascus arrived to help King.
Hey Dad.
Zer David killed 22,000 of them.
Then he placed several army garrisons in Damascus, the Aramean
capital and the aans became David's subjects and paid him tribute money.
So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.
David brought the gold shields of hey dad ER's officers to Jerusalem, along
with a large amount of bronze from Hey dad ER's, towns of tba, and K.
Later, Solomon melted the bronze and molded it into the great
Bronze Basin called the Sea, the Pillars and the various bronze
articles used at the temple.
When King Toy of Heath heard that David had destroyed the entire army
of King Haida Zer of Zoba, he sent his son Jora to congratulate King
David for his successful campaign.
Hey dad.
Easer and Toy had been enemies and were often at war.
Joran presented David with many gifts of gold, silver, and bronze.
King.
David dedicated all these gifts to the Lord along with the silver and gold he
had taken from the other nations, from Edam, Moab, Amon, Felicia, and Amalek.
AB Bahai, son of Zia destroyed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
He placed army garrisons in Edam, and all the Edomites became David's subjects.
In fact, the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.
So David reigned over all Israel and did what was just
and right for all his people.
Jo Abs, son of Zia, was commander of the army.
Jehoshaphat son of UD was the royal historian Zadak son of a high tub, and
a Alek son of Abiathar were the priests.
S was the court secretary.
Bene son of Jehoiada was the captain of the king's bodyguard, and David's sons
served as the King's chief assistance.
Sometime after this King Nahash of the Ammonites died
and his son Hanan became king.
David said, I am going to show loyalty to Hanan because his father,
Nahash was always loyal to me.
So David sent Messengers to express sympathy to Hanan
about his father's death.
But when David's ambassadors arrived in the land of Amon, the Amite commanders
said to Hanan, do you really think these men are coming here to honor your father?
No, David has sent them to spy out the land so they can come in and conquer it.
So Hanan seized David's ambassadors and shaved them, cut off their
robes at the buttocks and sent them back to David in shame.
When David heard what had happened to the men, he sent Messengers to
tell them, stay at Jericho until your beards grow out and then come back for.
They felt deep shame because of their appearance.
When the people of Amman realized how seriously they had angered David
Hanan and the Ammonites sent 75,000 pounds of silver to hire chariots and
Charioteers from Ara Ne Araca and Zoba.
They also hired 32,000 chariots and secured the support of
the King of Meka and his army.
These forces camped at MEbA, where they were joined by the Ammonite troops that
Hanan had recruited from his own towns.
When David heard about this, he sent Joab and all his warriors to fight them.
The Ammonite troops came out and drew up their battle lines at the entrance of
the city while the other kings positioned themselves to fight in the open fields.
When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear,
he chose some of Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal
command to fight the Ians in the fields.
He left the rest of the army under the command of his brother Abhai,
who was to attack the Ammonites.
If the Ians are too strong for me, then come over and help me.
Joab told his brother.
And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I will help you be courageous.
Let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God.
May the Lord's will be done.
When Joab and his troops attacked, the arameans began to run away,
and when the Ammonites saw the Ians running, they also ran from
Abhai and retreated into the city.
Then Joab returned to Jerusalem.
The Ians now realized that they were no match for Israel, so they sent messengers
and summoned additional Ian troops from the other side of the Euphrates River.
These troops were under the command of Showback.
The commander of Hey dad, easer forces.
When David heard what was happening, he mobilized all Israel, crossed
the Jordan River, and positioned his troops in battle formation.
Then David engaged the Ians in battle and they fought against him, but again,
the Ians fled from the Israelites.
This time, David's forces killed 7,000 Charioteers and 40,000 foot
soldiers in including Schach, the commander of their army.
When hey dad ER's, allies saw that they had been defeated by Israel,
they surrendered to David and became his subjects after that.
The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites in the spring of the
year when Kings normally go out to war.
Joab led the Israelite army in successful attacks against the land of the Ammonites.
In the process, he laid seed to the city of Rabba, attacking and destroying it.
However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.
Then David went to Rabba and removed the crown from the king's head
and it was placed on his own head.
The crown was made of gold and set with gems, and he found
that it weighed 75 pounds.
David took a vast amount of plunder from the city.
He also made slaves of the people of Rabba and forced them to labor with
saws, iron picks, and iron axes.
That is how David dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns.
Then David and all the Army returned to Jerusalem after this war.
Broke out with the Philistines at Geezer as they fought SSI from Husa killed Saff,
a descendant of the giants, and so the Philistines were subdued during another
battle with the Philistines El Hanan.
Son of J killed La Mai.
The brother of Goliath.
Of ga, the handle of Lama's spear was as thick as a weaver's beam.
In another battle with the Philistines at ga, they encountered
a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
24 in all, who was also a descendant of the giants, but when he defied and
taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shamia.
These Philistines were descendants of the giants of Garth, but David
and his warriors killed them.
Satan rose up against Israel and caused David to take a
census of the people of Israel.
So David said to Joab and the commanders of the Army take a census
of all the people of Israel from Biers Sheba in the South to Dan in
the north, and bring me a report.
So I may know how many there are I, but Joab replied, may the Lord increase
the number of his people a hundred times over, but why my Lord the king?
Do you want to do this?
Are they not all your servants?
Why must you cause Israel to sin?
But the king insisted that they take the census.
So Joab traveled throughout all Israel to count the people.
Then he returned to Jerusalem and reported the number of people to David.
There were 1,100,000 warriors in all Israel who could handle a sword.
And 470,000 in Judah.
But Joab did not include the tribes of Levi and Benjamin in the census
because he was so distressed at what the king had made him do.
God was very displeased with the census and he punished Israel for it.
Then David said to God, I have sinned greatly by taking this census.
Please forgive my guilt for doing this foolish thing.
Then the Lord spoke to God, David Seer.
This was the message.
Go and say to David, this is what the Lord says.
I will give you three choices.
Choose one of these punishments and I will inflict it on you.
So God came to David and said, these are the choices the Lord has given you.
You may choose three years of famine.
Three months of destruction by the sword of your enemies or three days of severe
plague, as the angel of the Lord brings devastation throughout the land of Israel.
Decide what answer I should give the Lord who sent me, I'm in a desperate
situation, David replied to Gad, but let me fall into the hands of the
Lord for his mercy is very great.
Do not let me fall into human hands.
So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and 70,000 people died as a result, and
God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem.
But just as the angel was preparing to destroy it, the Lord relented
and said to the death angel, stop.
That is enough.
At that moment, the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing
floor of Irana, the GBU site.
David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between
heaven and earth with his sword drawn, reaching out over Jerusalem.
So David and the leaders of Israel put on burlap to show their deep
distress and fell face down on the ground, and David said to God, I am
the one who called for the census.
I am the one who has sinned and done wrong.
But these people are as innocent as sheep.
What have they done?
Oh, Lord, my God, let your anger fall against me and my family,
but do not destroy your people.
Then the angel of the Lord told God to instruct David to go up and
build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Irana, the BU site.
So David went up to do what the Lord had commanded him through Gad.
Iana, who was busy threshing weed at the time, turned and saw the angel there.
His four sons who were with him ran away and hid.
When Iana saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before
David with his face to the ground.
David said to Iana, Let me buy this threshing floor
from you at its full price.
Then I will build an altar to the Lord there so that he will stop the plague.
Take it, my Lord, the king, and use it as you wish Iah said to David.
I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings and the threshing boards
for wood to build a fire on the altar and the wheat for the grain offering.
I will give it all to you.
But King David replied to Irana.
No, I insist on buying it for the full price.
I will not take what is yours and give it to the Lord.
I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing.
I So David gave Irana 600 pieces of gold in payment for the threshing floor.
David built an altar there to the Lord and sacrificed burnt
offerings and peace offerings.
And when David prayed, the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to
burn off the offering on the altar.
Then the Lord spoke to the angel who put the sword back into its sheath.
When David saw that the Lord had answered his prayer, he offered sacrifices
there at IANA's threshing floor.
At that time, the tabernacle of the Lord and the altar of burnt offering that Moses
had made in the wilderness were located at the place of worship in Gibeon, but
David was not able to go there to inquire of God because he was terrified by the
drawn sword of the angel of the Lord.
Then David said, this will be the location for the temple of the
Lord God, and the place of the altar for Israel's burnt offerings.
So David gave orders to call together the foreigners living in
Israel, and he assigned them the task of preparing finished stone
for building the temple of God.
David provided large amounts of iron for the nails that would be needed for the
doors in the gates and for the clamps, and he gave more bronze than could be weighed.
He also provided innumerable cedar logs for the men of tire, and Sidon had
brought vast amounts of cedar to David.
David said My son Solomon is still young and inexperienced.
And since the temple to be built for the Lord must be a magnificent
structure, famous and glorious throughout the world, I will begin
making preparations for it now.
So David collected vast amounts of building materials before his death.
Then David sent for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a temple
for the Lord, the God of Israel.
My son.
I wanted to build a temple to honor the name of the Lord My God.
David told him, but the Lord said to me, you have killed many men in the battles.
You have fought, and since you have shed so much blood in my
sight, you will not be the one to build a temple to honor my name.
But you will have a son who will be a man of peace.
I will give him peace with his enemies in all the surrounding lands.
His name will be Solomon and I will give peace and quiet
to Israel during his reign.
He is the one who will build a temple to honor my name.
He will be my son and I will be his father and I will secure the throne
of his kingdom over Israel forever.
Now my son, may the Lord be with you and give you success as you
follow his directions in building the temple of the Lord your God.
And may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding that you may obey
the law of the Lord your God, as you rule over Israel, for you will
be successful if you carefully obey the decrees and regulations that the
Lord gave to Israel through Moses.
Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid or lose heart.
I have worked hard to provide materials for building the temple of the Lord,
nearly 4,000 tons of gold, 40,000 tons of silver, and so much iron and
bronze that it cannot be weighed.
I have also gathered timber and stone for the walls, though
you may need to add more.
You have a large number of skilled stone masons and carpenters
and craftsmen of every kind.
You have expert goldsmiths and silversmiths and
workers of bronze and iron.
Now, begin the work and may the Lord be with you.
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to assist Solomon in this project.
The Lord your God is with you.
He declared.
He has given you peace with the surrounding nations.
He has handed them over to me and they are now subject to the Lord and his people.
Now, seek the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
Build the sanctuary of the Lord God so that you can bring the Ark of the Lord's
covenant and the holy vessels of God into the temple built to honor the Lord's name.