2 Samuel 24:16

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was striking the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And whan the angel stretched his hande ouer Ierusalem to destroye it, the LORDE repented ouer the euell, and sayde vnto the angell: It is ynough, holde now thy hande. The angell of the LORDE was besyde the barne of Arafna the Iebusite.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And when the Angel stretched out his hande vpon Ierusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented of the euil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, It is sufficient, holde nowe thine hand; the Angel of the Lorde was by the threshing place of Araunah the Iebusite.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand vpon Hierusalem to destroy it, the Lorde repented him of the euill, & saide to the angel that destroyed the people: It is now sufficient, holde thyne hand. And the angell of the Lord was by the threshing place of Areuna the Iebusite.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and the messenger putteth forth his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying among the people, `Enough, now, cease thy hand;' and the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people,“That’s enough! Stop now!”(Now the LORD’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:6 : 6 The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him.
  • Exod 12:23 : 23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following me and has not carried out my commands. This grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.
  • Joel 2:13-14 : 13 Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending calamity. 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing—grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately, an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God. He was eaten by worms and died.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 That night, the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning, there were dead bodies everywhere.
  • 2 Chr 3:1 : 1 Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  • 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and leaders and officials in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew in disgrace to his own land. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with the sword.
  • Ps 35:6 : 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, as the angel of the Lord pursues them.
  • Ps 78:38 : 38 Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath.
  • Ps 90:13 : 13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
  • Ps 135:14 : 14 For the LORD will judge His people and have compassion on His servants.
  • Isa 27:8 : 8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
  • Isa 40:1-2 : 1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service is completed, that her sin has been paid for, for she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit would faint before me—the breath of life that I created.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it. 8 But if that nation I have warned repents of its evil, then I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to bring upon it. 9 And at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to build it up or to plant it. 10 But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.
  • Exod 32:14 : 14 So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring on His people.
  • Josh 15:63 : 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the descendants of Judah could not drive them out. The Jebusites live with the descendants of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.
  • Judg 1:21 : 21 The Benjaminites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived there with the Benjaminites to this day.
  • Judg 19:11 : 11 When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and stay the night there.”
  • Gen 10:16 : 16 as well as the Jebusites, Amorites, and Girgashites,
  • Exod 9:28 : 28 Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay any longer.
  • Exod 12:13 : 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 21:15-16 : 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as the angel was about to destroy, the LORD saw, relented of the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "Enough! Withdraw your hand now." The angel of the LORD was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
  • 2 Cor 2:6 : 6 The punishment imposed by the majority is sufficient for such a person.
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'It will not happen,' said the Lord.
  • Amos 7:6 : 6 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'This will not happen either,' said the Lord God.
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 LORD, I have heard of Your fame and stand in awe of Your deeds. LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years, make it known; in wrath, remember mercy.
  • Zech 9:7 : 7 I will remove the blood from their mouths and their detestable things from between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our God; they will become like a clan leader in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
  • Mark 14:41 : 41 Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
  • 2 Sam 5:8 : 8 On that day, David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites should attack via the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind, who are despised by David." Because of this, it is said, "The blind and the lame will not enter the house."
  • 2 Sam 24:18 : 18 That day, Gad came to David and said to him, "Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 He went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom tree, sat under it, and prayed that he might die. 'Enough, LORD,' he said. 'Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Chr 21:14-18
    5 verses
    93%

    14So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

    15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as the angel was about to destroy, the LORD saw, relented of the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "Enough! Withdraw your hand now." The angel of the LORD was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    16David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

    17David said to God, "Was it not I who gave the command to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? LORD my God, let Your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on Your people."

    18Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Sam 24:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, "I alone have sinned; I, the shepherd, have acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand fall upon me and my family."

    18That day, Gad came to David and said to him, "Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

  • 1 Chr 21:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27Then the LORD commanded the angel to put his sword back into its sheath.

    28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

  • Zech 1:12
    75%

    12Then the angel of the Lord said, 'Lord of Hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?'

  • 2 Sam 24:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20When Araunah saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

    21Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David replied, "To buy your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, and the plague may be stopped from affecting the people."

    22Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

  • 1 Chr 21:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20When Ornan turned and saw the angel, he and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat.

    21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. He went out from the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.

    22David said to Ornan, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD on it. Sell it to me at the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped."

  • 2 Sam 24:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for His mercies are many, but do not let me fall into human hands."

    15So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba.

  • 2 Sam 24:25
    71%

    25David built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the Lord answered prayer on behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

  • Exod 32:14
    70%

    14So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring on His people.

  • Amos 7:3
    70%

    3So the Lord relented concerning this: 'It will not happen,' said the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 21:30
    69%

    30But David could not go before it to seek God because he was terrified of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

  • Isa 37:36
    69%

    36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies.

  • Amos 7:6
    69%

    6So the Lord relented concerning this: 'This will not happen either,' said the Lord God.

  • Num 22:24
    69%

    24Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides.

  • 1 Chr 13:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.

    10The anger of the LORD burned against Uzza, and He struck him down because he had reached out to the ark. Uzza died there in the presence of God.

    11David was angry because the LORD had burst out against Uzza, so he named that place Perez-Uzza, as it is called to this day.

  • 2 Sam 24:10
    68%

    10David's heart was troubled after he had numbered the people. He said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, please take away the guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

  • 2 Sam 6:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen had stumbled.

    7The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence. He died there beside the ark of God.

  • 2 Chr 32:21
    68%

    21And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and leaders and officials in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew in disgrace to his own land. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with the sword.

  • Ezek 9:4
    68%

    4The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'

  • Judg 2:4
    68%

    4When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

  • Ezek 9:8
    67%

    8As they were striking, I was left alone. I fell face down and cried out, 'Ah, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in your outpouring of wrath on Jerusalem?'

  • Jer 26:13
    67%

    13'Now, therefore, amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God. Then the LORD will relent concerning the disaster that He has pronounced against you.'

  • Num 22:32
    67%

    32The angel of the LORD asked him, 'Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.'

  • Judg 6:21-22
    2 verses
    67%

    21Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared from his sight.

    22When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, 'Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!'

  • Zech 1:15
    67%

    15But I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they added to the harm.

  • 1 Chr 21:12
    67%

    12three years of famine, three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—pestilence in the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide how I should answer the One who sent me."

  • Gen 6:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him.

    7So the Lord said, "I will wipe out humanity, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—humans, along with the animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I have made them."

  • Zech 3:2
    67%

    2And the LORD said to Satan, 'The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this man not like a burning stick snatched from the fire?'

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    67%

    7This command was evil in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 19:35
    67%

    35That night, the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning, there were dead bodies everywhere.

  • 2 Sam 24:1
    67%

    1Again the Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He incited David against them, saying, "Go, count the people of Israel and Judah."

  • Isa 5:25
    67%

    25Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against His people. He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. The mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, His anger has not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.