1 Chronicles 21:12

12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Yisra'el. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

1 Chronicles 21:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:12

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

1 Chronicles 21:12 In-Context

10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says the LORD, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.

11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Take which you will:

12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Yisra'el. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

13 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

14 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Yisra'el; and there fell of Yisra'el seventy thousand men.