2 Samuel 24:10-13

The Lord’s Judgment of David’s Sin

10But aDavid’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, b“I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done cvery foolishly.” 11And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to dthe prophet Gad, David’s eseer, saying, 12Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer
Or hold over
you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”
13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall gthree
Compare 1 Chronicles 21:12, Septuagint; Hebrew seven
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 dayspestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
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