THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE PROPHET GAD, DAVID'S SEER

SAMUEL 24:11–17

FOR WHEN DAVID WAS 

UP IN THE MORNING, 

THE WORD OF THE LORD 

CAME UNTO 

THE PROPHET GAD, 

DAVID'S SEER, SAYING,
GO AND SAY UNTO DAVID, 

THUS SAITH THE LORD, 

I OFFER THEE THREE THINGS; 

CHOOSE THEE ONE OF THEM, 

THAT I MAY DO IT UNTO THEE.
SO GAD CAME TO DAVID, 

AND TOLD HIM, 

AND SAID UNTO HIM, 

SHALL SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE 

COME UNTO THEE IN THY LAND? 

OR WILT THOU FLEE 

THREE MONTHS 

BEFORE THINE ENEMIES, 

WHILE THEY PURSUE THEE? 

OR 

THAT THERE BE THREE DAYS' 

PESTILENCE IN THY LAND? 

NOW ADVISE, 

AND SEE WHAT ANSWER 

I SHALL RETURN TO HIM THAT SENT ME.
AND

DAVID SAID UNTO GAD,

 I AM IN A GREAT STRAIT:

LET US FALL NOW INTO

THE HAND OF THE LORD;

FOR HIS MERCIES ARE GREAT:

AND

LET ME NOT FALL INTO

THE HAND OF MAN.
SO THE LORD SENT

A PESTILENCE UPON

ISRAEL FROM

THE MORNING EVEN

TO THE TIME APPOINTED:

AND

THERE DIED OF THE PEOPLE

FROM DAN EVEN TO

BEERSHEBA SEVENTY

THOUSAND MEN.
AND

WHEN THE ANGEL

STRETCHED

OUT HIS HAND

UPON JERUSALEM

TO DESTROY IT,

THE LORD REPENTED

HIM OF THE EVIL,

AND SAID TO THE ANGEL

THAT DESTROYED THE PEOPLE,

 IT IS ENOUGH:

STAY NOW THINE HAND.

AND THE ANGEL OF

THE LORD WAS BY THE

THRESHINGPLACE OF

ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE.
AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO

THE LORD WHEN HE

SAW THE ANGEL

THAT SMOTE THE PEOPLE,

AND SAID, LO,

I HAVE SINNED,

AND

I HAVE DONE WICKEDLY:

BUT THESE SHEEP,

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?

LET THINE HAND,

I PRAY THEE,

BE AGAINST ME,

AND AGAINST MY FATHER'S HOUSE.

LOVE