Verse 13
1 Chronicles 21:13
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Either three years' famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר דָּוִ֛יד אֶל גָּ֖ד צַר לִ֣/י מְאֹ֑ד אֶפְּלָה נָּ֣א בְ/יַד יְהוָ֗ה כִּֽי רַבִּ֤ים רַחֲמָי/ו֙ מְאֹ֔ד וּ/בְ/יַד אָדָ֖ם אַל אֶפֹּֽל
English Translation
And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; 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."
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Chapter 21 Context
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And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
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And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to...
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And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are : but, my lord the ki...
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But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned t...
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And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found t...
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But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.
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And God (Elohim) was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.
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And David said to God (Elohim): I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away th...
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And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:
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Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: c...
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And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:
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Either three years' famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape t...
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And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into th...
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15
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and too...
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And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a d...
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And David said to God (Elohim): Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that h...
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And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God...
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and David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord.
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Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time h...
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And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and...
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And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar t...
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And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and moreover th...
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And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much se it is worth: f...
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So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sides of gold of just weight.
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And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he call...
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And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.
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And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Oman the Jebusite, forthwith o...
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But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at...
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And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God (Elohim): for he was seized with an exceedi...
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