Thematic Bible: Bears the divine message to david, offering choice between three evils, for his presumption in numbering israel

And when David rose up in the morning, the word of LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and speak to David, Thus says LORD, I offer thee three things. Choose thee one of them, that I may do it to thee. So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? Or will thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? read more.
And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let us fall now into the hand of LORD, for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.

And LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says LORD, I offer thee three things. Choose thee one of them, that I may do it to thee. So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Take which thou will: read more.
either three years of famine, or three months to be consumed before thy foes while the sword of thine enemies overtakes thee, or else three days the sword of LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the agent of LORD destroying throu And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of LORD, for his mercies are very great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.