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2 Samuel 24:13-15
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Samuel 24:13-15
Evangelical Heritage Version
13 So Gad went to David and told him about this. He said, “Shall seven[a] years of famine in your land come upon you, or three months of fleeing with your enemies pursuing you, or three days of plague[b] in your land? Now consider this and decide what answer I should return to the one who sent me.”
14 David said to Gad, “This puts me in a difficult position. Please! Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great. But do not let me fall into the hands of man.”
15 So the Lord sent a plague against Israel from the next morning until the appointed time. Seventy thousand people from Dan to Beersheba died.
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- 2 Samuel 24:13 Seven years is the reading of the Hebrew text. The Greek text reads three years, which matches the number in the other two options. In 1 Chronicles 21:12, it reads three years.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 Or deadly disease
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