1 Chronicles 21:11
◄  1 Chronicles 21:11  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice:

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Gad came to David and said, "These are the choices the LORD has given you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Choose what you will:

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Take for yourself

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice:

International Standard Version (©2012)
Gad went to David and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Make a choice for yourself:

NET Bible (©2006)
Gad went to David and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Pick one of these:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When Gad came to David, he said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your pick:

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD, Choose you

American King James Version
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus said the LORD, Choose you

American Standard Version
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:

Darby Bible Translation
And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah:

English Revised Version
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Take which thou wilt;

Webster's Bible Translation
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

World English Bible
So Gad came to David, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Take your choice:

Young's Literal Translation
And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, 'Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee --

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-30 David's numbering the people. - No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his acceptance of David's offerings on this altar. Thus Christ was made sin, and a curse for us; it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through him, God might be to us, not a consuming Fire, but a reconciled God. It is good to continue attendance on those ordinances in which we have experienced the tokens of God's presence, and have found that he is with us of a truth. Here God graciously met me, therefore I will still expect to meet him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11, 12. Choose thee, &c.—To the three evils these correspond in beautiful agreement: three years, three months, three days [Bertheau]. (See on [396]2Sa 24:13).

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Judgment for David's Sin
…10Go and tell David, saying, Thus said the LORD, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. 11So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus said the LORD, Choose you 12Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before your foes, while that the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise yourself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

1 Chronicles 21:10 "Go and tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.'"
1 Chronicles 21:12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD--days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."