1;  David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
  5;  The number of the people being brought, David repents of
     it.
  9;  David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the
     pestilence.
 14;  After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance
     prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
 18;  David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing-
     floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his
     favour by fire, and stays the plague.
 28;  David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by
     fear of the angel.

 * A.M. 2987.  B.C. 1017.  An. Ex. Is. 474.  Satan.
  2Sa 24:1  1Ki 22:20-22  Job 1:6-12  2:1,4-6  Zec 3:1  Mt 4:3 
  Lu 22:31  Joh 13:2  Ac 5:3  Jas 1:13  Re 12:10 
 * provoked David.
  Lu 11:53  Heb 10:24