2 Samuel 24:12
New Revised Standard Version
“Go and say to David: Thus says the LORD: Three things I offer you; choose one of them, and I will do it to you.”

New American Bible
Go, tell David: Thus says the LORD: I am offering you three options; choose one of them, and I will give you that.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.

I offer

1 Chronicles 21:10,11 Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee. . . .

that I may

2 Samuel 12:9,10,14 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

Leviticus 26:41,43 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins. . . .

Job 5:17,18 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord. . . .

Proverbs 3:12 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

Hebrews 12:6-10 For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. . . .

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
Judgment for David's Sin
11And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying: 12Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.13And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:11
And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:

2 Samuel 24:13
And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles of king David.

2 Samuel 24:11
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