- 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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- 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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