²² So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

¹³ So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^(A)three^[a] years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”