1 Chronicles 21:12 CPDV

¹⁰  'Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus says the Lord: I give to you the option of three things. Choose the one that you will want, and I will do it to you.'

¹¹  And when Gad had gone to David, he said to him: 'Thus says the Lord: Choose what you will want:

¹²  Either three years of famine, or three months for you to flee from your enemies, unable to escape from their sword, or three days for the sword of the Lord and a pestilence to turn within the land, with the Angel of the Lord killing in every part of Israel. Now therefore, see what I should respond to him who sent me.'

¹³  And David said to Gad: 'There are difficulties pressing upon me from every side. But it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.'

¹⁴  Therefore, the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell from Israel seventy thousand men.