Thematic Bible: Between judgments, by david

Go and say to David, So says Jehovah, I offer you three things. Choose one of them, so that I may do it to you. Verse ConceptsChoosing ThingsThree Other ThingsMaking DecisionsDecision Makingconsequences

And Gad came to David and said to him, So says Jehovah, Choose for yourself: either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtake you, or else three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the plague in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the border of Israel. And now say what word I shall bring again to Him who sent me. And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let me fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.