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When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” The LORD’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:16 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨૪:૧૬
દૂતે યરુશાલેમનો નાશ કરવાને પોતાનો હાથ તેની તરફ લંબાવ્યો, ત્યારે ઈશ્વરે યરુશાલેમનું નુકસાન કરવાથી તેના મનને બદલી નાખ્યું જે દૂત લોકોનો નાશ કરતો હતો, તેને તેમણે કહ્યું, “હવે બસ! તારો હાથ પાછો લે.” તે સમયે ઈશ્વરનો દૂત અરાવ્નાહ યબૂસીની ખળી પાસે ઊભો હતો.
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २४:१६
परन्तु जब दूत ने यरूशलेम का नाश करने को उस पर अपना हाथ बढ़ाया, तब यहोवा वह विपत्ति डालकर शोकित हुआ, और प्रजा के नाश करनेवाले दूत से कहा, “बस कर; अब अपना हाथ खींच।” यहोवा का दूत उस समय अरौना नामक एक यबूसी के खलिहान के पास था।

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14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

15So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

16When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” The LORD’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

17David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

18Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

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