- So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Take for yourself
- either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me."
- David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; please let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man."
- So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.
- And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw and was sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now relax your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan 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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