- 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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- 于是,迦得来见大卫,对他说,耶和华如此说,你可以随意选择,
- 或三年的饥荒。或败在你敌人面前,被敌人的刀追杀三个月。或在你国中有耶和华的刀,就是三日的瘟疫,耶和华的使者在以色列的四境施行毁灭。现在你要想一想,我好回覆那差我来的。
- 大卫对迦得说,我甚为难。我愿落在耶和华的手里,因为他有丰盛的怜悯。我不愿落在人的手里。
- 于是,耶和华降瘟疫与以色列人,以色列人就死了七万。
- 神差遣使者去灭耶路撒冷,刚要灭的时候,耶和华看见后悔,就不降这灾了,吩咐灭城的天使说,够了,住手吧。那时,耶和华的使者站在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场那里。
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