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|2 Samuel 24:11|
Before David got up the next morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
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12
|2 Samuel 24:12|
“Go and tell David, `This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’“
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|2 Samuel 24:13|
So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come upon you three [Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 21:12); Hebrew seven] years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
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|2 Samuel 24:14|
David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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|2 Samuel 24:15|
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
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|2 Samuel 24:16|
When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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|2 Samuel 24:17|
When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall upon me and my family.”
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|2 Samuel 24:18|
On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
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|2 Samuel 24:19|
So David went up, as the LORD had commanded through Gad.
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|2 Samuel 24:20|
When Araunah looked and saw the king and his men coming towards him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
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