David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people |
The captains, in nine months and twenty days, gather 1,300,000 fighting men |
David repents, and having three plagues proposed by God, chooses pestilence |
After the death of 70,000, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem |
David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; |
and the plague stops |