2 Samuel 24:11 Before David got up the next morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David's seer:

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New International Version
Before David got up the next morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David's seer:

English Standard Version
And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

New American Standard Bible
When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

King James Bible
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer:"

International Standard Version
Before David arose the next morning, this message from the LORD came to Gad, David's seer:

American Standard Version
And when David rose up in the morning, the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:

Darby Bible Translation
And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And David riseth in the morning, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Gad the prophet, seer of David, saying,

Cross References

1 Samuel 9:9
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spoke, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

1 Samuel 22:5
And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

2 Samuel 24:12
Go and say to David, Thus said the LORD, I offer you three things; choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.

1 Chronicles 21:9
And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,

1 Chronicles 25:5
All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

2 Chronicles 29:25
And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:10-15 It is well, when a man has sinned, if he has a heart within to smite him for it. If we confess our sins, we may pray in faith that God would forgive them, and take away, by pardoning mercy, that sin which we cast away by sincere repentance. What we make the matter of our pride, it is just in God to take from us, or make bitter to us, and make it our punishment. This must be such a punishment as the people have a large share in, for though it was David's sin that opened the sluice, the sins of the people all contributed to the flood. In this difficulty, David chose a judgment which came immediately from God, whose mercies he knew to be very great, rather than from men, who would have triumphed in the miseries of Israel, and have been thereby hardened in their idolatry. He chose the pestilence; he and his family would be as much exposed to it as the poorest Israelite; and he would continue for a shorter time under the Divine rebuke, however severe it was. The rapid destruction by the pestilence shows how easily God can bring down the proudest sinners, and how much we owe daily to the Divine patience.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2Sa 24:10-14. He, Having Three Plagues Propounded by GAD, Repents, and Chooses Three Days' Pestilence.

10-13. David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned—The act of numbering the people was not in itself sinful; for Moses did it by the express authority of God. But David acted not only independently of such order or sanction, but from motives unworthy of the delegated king of Israel; from pride and vainglory; from self-confidence and distrust of God; and, above all, from ambitious designs of conquest, in furtherance of which he was determined to force the people into military service, and to ascertain whether he could muster an army sufficient for the magnitude of the enterprises he contemplated. It was a breach of the constitution, an infringement of the liberties of the people, and opposed to that divine policy which required that Israel should continue a separate people. His eyes were not opened to the heinousness of his sin till God had spoken unto him by His commissioned prophet.