¹³ Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he is pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word.” ¹⁴ Then David said to Gad, “I am greatly distressed. Please let us fall into the hand of Yahweh, because he is great in his compassion; but into the hand of man don’t let me fall.” ¹⁵ Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning until the agreed time,^[a] and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died.