1 Chronicles 21:9-13 ▼

9 The LORD told Gad, David's prophet,

10 Go, tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: |I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.|'|

11 Gad went to David and told him, |This is what the LORD says: 'Pick one of these:

12 three years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, or three days being struck down by the LORD, during which a plague will invade the land and the LORD's messenger will destroy throughout Israel's territory.' Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.|

13 David said to Gad, |I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!|