13 So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three[a] years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, consider carefully[b] what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

14 David answered Gad, “I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord’s hands because his mercies are great,(A) but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

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Footnotes

  1. 24:13 LXX; MT reads seven; 1Ch 21:12
  2. 24:13 Lit Now, know and see

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