1 Chronicles 21:9-13 ▼

9 Then the LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, in these words:

10 Go, tell David: Thus says the LORD: I am laying out three options; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.

11 Accordingly, Gad went to David and said to him: “Thus says the LORD: Decide now—

12 will it be three years of famine; or three months of fleeing your enemies, with the sword of your foes ever at your back; or three days of the LORD’s own sword, a plague in the land, with the LORD’s destroying angel in every part of Israel? Now consider: What answer am I to give him who sent me?”

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.”