1 Chronicles 21:11

So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

12Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:20Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

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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