Wherefore: 2 Samuel 24:3, 2 Samuel 24:18
the plague: 2 Samuel 21:3-14; Numbers 16:47-50, Numbers 25:8; Psalms 106:30
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2 Samuel 24:21
2 Samuel 24:21
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