2Sa 24:13, Isa 36:21-22, Heb 13:17 | ESV | STEP | So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, Shall three 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 decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

2 Samuel 24:13

13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^athree ^{▼▼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 days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

Isaiah 36:21-22

21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.” 22 ^cThen Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Hebrews 13:17

17 Obey ^dyour leaders and submit to them, ^efor they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to ^fgive an account. ^gLet them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.