1 Chronicles 21:9-13

9 The LORD said to Gad, David’s seer,

10 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’ ”

11 So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Take your choice:

12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away^[a] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

13 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

1 Chronicles 21:9-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 21

Excepting the three last verses, is contained in 2Sa 24:1-25 with some few variations, which are there observed; see the notes there. 18894-950102-2025-1Ch21.2

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Samuel 22:5
• 2. S 1 Samuel 9:9
• 3. S Deuteronomy 32:24
• 4. Ezekiel 30:25
• 5. S Genesis 19:13
• 6. Psalms 6:4; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 130:4,7

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate (see also 2 Samuel 24:13) "of fleeing"