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"Go and tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: I'm offering you three choices. Choose the one you want me to do to you.'"
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When Gad came to David, he said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your pick:
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either three years of famine, or three months during which your enemies will chase you away when their swords catch up to you, or three days of the LORD's sword--a plague in the land with the Messenger of the LORD destroying the whole country of Israel.' Decide what answer I should give the one who sent me."
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"I'm in a desperate situation," David told Gad. "Please let me fall into the LORD's hands because he is extremely merciful. But don't let me fall into human hands."