1 Chronicles 21:13-15

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹³ David answered Gad, “I’m in anguish. Please, let me fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are very great,^(A) but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died. ¹⁵ Then God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when the angel was about to destroy the city,^[a] the Lord looked, relented concerning the destruction,^(B) and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Ornan^[b] the Jebusite.