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2 Samuel 24:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’” "

2 Samuel 24:12

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10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

11 When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

12 “Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

13 So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

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2 Samuel 24:1

"Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”"

2 Samuel 24:2

"The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”"

2 Samuel 24:3

"Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”"

2 Samuel 24:4

"Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel."

2 Samuel 24:5

"They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;"

2 Samuel 24:6

"then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon,"

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