1Ch 21:12, 2Ch 6:28-31, 20:9, Psa 105:34-35, Jer 32:2, 39:1-3 | ESV | STEP | either three years of famine , or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord , pestilence on the land , with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel . Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

a[2 Sam. 24:13]

b[ch. 20:9]

c[See ver. 21 above]

dSee 1 Sam. 16:7

e ch. 6:28-30; 1 Kgs. 8:33, 37; [Ezek. 14:21]

g[Ezra 10:1]

h ch. 6:20

iSee Ex. 10:12-15

j Ps. 88:8

k ver. 8, 12; ch. 33:1; 37:21; 38:6, 13; 39:14; [Neh. 3:25]

lFor ver. 1-10, see ch. 52:4-16; 2 Kgs. 25:1-12

m ch. 38:17, 18, 22

n[ch. 1:15]

o ver. 13; 2 Kgs. 18:17

1 Chronicles 21:12

12 either ^athree years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

2 Chronicles 6:28-31

28 ^b“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 29 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house, 30 ^cthen hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, ^dfor you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind, 31 that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

2 Chronicles 20:9

9 ^e‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, ^{▼▼Or the sword of judgment} or pestilence, or famine, ^gwe will stand before this house and before you— ^hfor your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

Psalms 105:34-35

34 He spoke, and the ⁱlocusts came,
young locusts without number,
35 which devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.

Jeremiah 32:2

2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet ^jwas shut up in ^kthe court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 39:1-3

The Fall of Jerusalem

1 ^lIn the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. 3 Then all ^mthe officials of the king of Babylon came ⁿand sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim ^othe Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.