1 Chronicles 21:12-14

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹² either three years of famine, or three months during which your enemies will chase you away when their swords catch up to you, or three days of the Lord’s sword—a plague in the land with the Messenger of the Lord destroying the whole country of Israel.’ Decide what answer I should give the one who sent me.”

¹³ “I’m in a desperate situation,” David told Gad. “Please let me fall into the Lord’s hands because he is extremely merciful. But don’t let me fall into human hands.”

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.