2 Samuel 24:14

David And The Census Of The People

¹³ So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me. ¹⁴ And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men. ¹⁵ So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

Hand of the Lord

In Great Distress

Let Us

To the Lord

Great Distress

In A Great Strait

David

Gad

Jehovah

Psalm 51:1

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Psalm 119:156

Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

Exodus 34:6-7

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

1 Samuel 13:6

When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

2 Kings 6:15

Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?

2 Kings 13:3-7

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

1 Chronicles 21:13

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

2 Chronicles 28:5-9

So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

Psalm 103:8-14

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Psalm 106:41-42

And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.

Proverbs 12:10

An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

Isaiah 55:7

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Jonah 4:2

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

Zechariah 1:15

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

John 12:27

Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.

Philippians 1:23

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better: