- So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice:
- three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD -days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."
- David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men."
- So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
- And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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- 於是迦得來見大衛、對他說、耶和華如此說、你可以隨意選擇.
- 或三年的饑荒、或敗在你敵人面前、被敵人的刀追殺三個月、或在你國中有耶和華的刀、就是三日的瘟疫、耶和華的使者在以色列的四境施行毀滅。現在你要想一想、我好回覆那差我來的。
- 大衛對迦得說、我甚為難.我願落在耶和華的手裡、因為他有豐盛的憐憫.我不願落在人的手裡。
- 於是耶和華降瘟疫與以色列人.以色列人就死了七萬。
- 神差遣使者去滅耶路撒冷.剛要滅的時候、耶和華看見後悔、就不降這災了、吩咐滅城的天使說、彀了、住手罷。那時耶和華的使者站在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場那裡。
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