2Sa 24:12-15 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ Go and speak to David , ‘ Thus the Lord says , “ I am offering you three things ; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”

2 Samuel 24:12-15

12 “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the Lord says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’” 13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^aseven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” 14 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord ^bfor His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

Pestilence Sent

15 So ^cthe Lord ^{▼▼ Lit gave}sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people ^efrom Dan to Beersheba died.