1 Chronicles 21:11

So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You can choose one of these punishments:

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

In Context

10“Go and tell this to David: I am allowing you to choose one of three things to punish you. I will do whichever one you choose.”

12three years of famine in Israel, or three months during which your armies will run away from their enemies who will attack them with swords, or three days during which I will send my angel to cause many people in the country to die because of a ◄plague/very serious illness►.’ So, you must decide what I will say to answer Yahweh, the one who sent me.”

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:20Pay attention when people give you good advice and learn from them, in order that you will become wise for the rest of your life.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:8-18

David's Numbering the People. ( b. c. 1017.) 7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 9 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying, 10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the Lord , I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him,… Read the whole commentary →

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