2 Samuel 24:16

Good News Translation

When the Lord's angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord changed his mind about punishing the people and said to the angel who was killing them, “Stop! That's enough!” The angel was by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.

Cross References

Genesis 10:16

Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 6:6

he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret

2 Samuel 24:18

That same day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the Lord.”

2 Samuel 5:8

That day David said to his men, “Does anybody here hate the Jebusites as much as I do? Enough to kill them? Then go up through the water tunnel and attack those poor blind cripples.” (That is why it is said, “The blind and the crippled cannot enter the Lord's house.”)

1 Kings 19:4

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down in the shade of a tree and wished he would die. “It's too much, Lord,” he prayed. “Take away my life; I might as well be dead!”

2 Kings 19:35

That night an angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

1 Chronicles 1:14

Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, Girgashites,

2 Chronicles 3:1

King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction

2 Chronicles 32:21

The Lord sent an angel that killed the soldiers and officers of the Assyrian army. So the emperor went back to Assyria disgraced. One day when he was in the temple of his god, some of his sons killed him with their swords.

Psalm 135:14

The Lord will defend his people; he will take pity on his servants.

Psalm 35:6

May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the Lord strikes them down!

Psalm 78:38

But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.

Psalm 90:13

How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!

Exodus 12:13

The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.

Exodus 12:23

When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord changed his mind and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

Exodus 9:28

Pray to the Lord! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go; you don't have to stay here any longer.”

Isaiah 27:8

The Lord punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.

Isaiah 57:16

I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them forever.

Jeremiah 26:19

King Hezekiah and the people of Judah did not put Micah to death. Instead, Hezekiah honored the Lord and tried to win his favor. And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he said he would bring on them. Now we are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves.” (

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you are willing to go on living in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not pull you up. The destruction I brought on you has caused me great sorrow.

Amos 7:3

The Lord changed his mind and said, “What you saw will not take place.”

Amos 7:6

The Lord changed his mind again and said, “This will not take place either.”

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard of what you have done, and I am filled with awe. Now do again in our times the great deeds you used to do. Be merciful, even when you are angry.

Zechariah 9:7

They will no longer eat meat with blood in it, or other forbidden food. All the survivors will become part of my people and be like a clan in the tribe of Judah. Ekron will become part of my people, as the Jebusites did.

Mark 14:41

When he came back the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come! Look, the Son of Man is now being handed over to the power of sinners.

Acts 12:23

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

1 Corinthians 10:10

We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

2 Corinthians 2:6

It is enough that this person has been punished in this way by most of you.

Joshua 15:63

But the people of Judah were not able to drive out the Jebusites, who lived in Jerusalem. The Jebusites still live there with the people of Judah.

Judges 1:21

But the people of the tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, and the Jebusites have continued to live there with the people of Benjamin ever since.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I am sorry that I made Saul king; he has turned away from me and disobeyed my commands.” Samuel was angry, and all night long he pleaded with the Lord.