2 Samuel 24:16

Modern English Version

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity. He said to the angel who was annihilating the people, “Enough! Now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Cross References

Genesis 10:16

and the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Genesis 6:6

The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him in His heart.

2 Samuel 24:18

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

2 Samuel 5:8

David said on that day, “Whoever defeats the Jebusites, let him go through the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind, who are despised by David.” Therefore, it is said, “The blind and lame shall not come into the house.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

2 Kings 19:35

On that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

1 Chronicles 1:14

and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

2 Chronicles 3:1

So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, at the place that David established on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 32:21

So the Lord sent an angel and destroyed the mighty army, leaders, and officials in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king returned in shame to his own land. When he entered the temple of his god, some of his sons fell on him there with the sword.

Psalm 135:14

For the Lord will vindicate His people, and He will have compassion on His servants.

Psalm 35:6

Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

Psalm 78:38

But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger, and did not stir up all His wrath;

Psalm 90:13

Return, O  Lord! How long? Have compassion on Your servants!

Exodus 12:13

The blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:23

For the Lord will pass through to kill the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not permit the destroyer to come to your houses to kill you.

Exodus 32:14

Then the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Exodus 9:28

Entreat the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s mighty thunder and hail, and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

Isaiah 27:8

You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away. He has expelled them on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls whom I have made.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? Thus we might procure great evil against ourselves.”

Jeremiah 42:10

If you will still abide in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up; for I will relent of the disaster that I have brought on you.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Amos 7:6

The Lord relented concerning this: “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Habakkuk 3:2

O  Lord, I have heard the report of You, and was afraid; O  Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of these years make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

Zechariah 9:7

I will take away the bloodshed from its mouth, and the abominations from between its teeth. Even it will be a remnant for our God. It will be like a tribe of a clan in Judah, and Ekron like the Jebusites.

Mark 14:41

When He returned a third time, He said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and died.

1 Corinthians 10:10

Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

2 Corinthians 2:6

This punishment which was inflicted by many on such a man is sufficient.

Joshua 15:63

The people of Judah were not able to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1:21

However, the tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the tribe of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 19:11

When they were near Jebus, it was getting very late. The servant said to his master, “Come, let us turn aside to this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.