1 Chronicles 21:13

11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Choose for yourself,

12 ^aeither three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the Lord—the plague in the land, with the² angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now consider what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

13 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His ^amercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

14 So the Lord sent a ^aplague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

15 And God sent¹ an ^aangel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As² he was destroying, the Lord looked and ^brelented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, “It is enough; now restrain³ your hand.” And the angel of the Lord stood by the ^cthreshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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David said - I am in a great strait - The Targum reasons thus:

"And David said to Gad, If I choose famine, the Israelites may say, The granaries of David are full of corn; neither doth he care should the people of Israel die with hunger. And if I choose war, and fly before an enemy, the Israelites may say, David is a strong and warlike man, and he cares not though the people of Israel should fall by the sword. I am brought into a great strait; I will deliver myself now into the Hand of the Word of the Lord, beyad meymera dayai , for his mercies are many; but into the hands of the children of men I will not deliver myself."

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