Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class June 21, 2026
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Theme:
I & II Chronicles
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A Counting Of Israel
I Chronicles 21
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The Census
1) Now Satan stood up aginst Israel, and moved David to number Israel. 2) So David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beeersheba to Dan, and bring the numcer of them to me hat I may know it." 3) And Joab answered, "May the Lord make the people a hundred times more than they are. But my lord the King, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt in Israel?" 4) Nevertheless the king's word previled against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout Israel and came to Jeruslem. 5) Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to Dvid. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword. 6) But he did not count Levi and Benjamin amoung them, for the king's word was abonimable to Joab.
I Chronicles 21:1-6
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The Punishent
7) And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel. 8) So David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I pray, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly." 9) Then the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 10) "Go and tell David, saying, 'Thus says the Lord; "I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you." ' " 11) So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: 'choose for yourself, 12) either three years of famine, or three months to be dfeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the Lord--the plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel,'.' Now consider what answer I should take back to Him Who sent me" 13) And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man." 14) So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Isrel fell. 15) And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destoying, the Lord looked and relented of the diaster, and said to the angel who ws destroying, "It is enough; now restrain your hand." And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Onan the Jebusite. 16) Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord stnding between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword streched out over Jerusalem. so David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 17) And David said to God, "Was it it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and doe evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O Lord my God, be against me and my father's house, but not against your people that they may be plaued."
I Chronicles 21:7-17
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The Altar
18) Therefore, the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and eredt an alter to the Lord on the threshing floor of Onan the Jebusite.19) So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord. 20) Now Onan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Onan continued threshing wheat. 21) so David came to Onan, and Onan looked and saw David. and he went out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David with his face to the ground. 22) Then David said to Onan, "Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to th Lord.You shall grant it to me at the full price that the plague may be withdrawn from the people." 23) But Onan said to David, "Take it to yourself, and let my lord theKing do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all." 24) Then David said to Onan, "No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing/" 25) So David gave Onan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. 26) and David built an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offeringsand peace offerings, and called on the name of the Lord; and He answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering. 27) So the Lord commanded the angel, the angel and he returned his sword to his shath. 26) At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Onan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29) For the tabernacle of the Lord and the altar of burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that tme at the high place of Gibeon. 30) But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was scared of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
I Chronicles 21:18-30
II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
