1 Chronicles 21:13-15 ▼

13 Then David said to Gad: “I am in serious trouble. But let me fall into the hand of the LORD, whose mercy is very great, rather than into hands of men.”

14 Therefore the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites died.

15 God also sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as the angel was on the point of destroying it, the LORD saw and changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “Enough now! Stay your hand!” The angel of the LORD was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.