撒母耳记下 24:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“你去告訴大衛說：‘耶和華這樣說：我給你三個選擇，你要選擇一個，我好向你施行。’”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 去 告 诉 大 卫 ， 说 耶 和 华 如 此 说 ： 我 有 三 样 灾 ， 随 你 选 择 一 样 ， 我 好 降 与 你 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ David felt ashamed after he had counted the people. He said to the Lord , "I have sinned greatly by what I have done. Lord , I beg you to forgive me, your servant, because I have been very foolish." ¹¹ When David got up in the morning, the Lord spoke his word to Gad, who was a prophet and David's seer. ¹² The Lord told Gad, "Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I offer you three choices. Choose one of them and I will do it to you.'" ¹³ So Gad went to David and said to him, "Should three years of hunger come to you and your land? Or should your enemies chase you for three months? Or should there be three days of disease in your land? Think about it. Then decide which of these things I should tell the Lord who sent me." ¹⁴ David said to Gad, "I am in great trouble. Let the Lord punish us, because the Lord is very merciful. Don't let my punishment come from human beings!" ¹⁵ So the Lord sent a terrible disease on Israel. It began in the morning and continued until the chosen time to stop. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand people died. ¹⁶ When the angel raised his arm toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord felt very sorry about the terrible things that had happened. He said to the angel who was destroying the people, "That is enough! Put down your arm!" The angel of the Lord was then by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ When David saw the angel that killed the people, he said to the Lord , "I am the one who sinned and did wrong. These people only followed me like sheep. They did nothing wrong. Please punish me and my family."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I offer: 1 Chronicles 21:10, 1 Chronicles 21:11

that I may: 2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 12:14, Leviticus 26:41, Leviticus 26:43, Job 5:17, Job 5:18, Proverbs 3:12, Hebrews 12:6-10, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:12 - smite Judges 3:20 - I have Jeremiah 22:1 - Go

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."

Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.' The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 24:8
If the girl won't come back with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not take my son back there."

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.

Genesis 24:11
In the evening, when the women come out to get water, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city.

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty, a virgin; she had never had sexual relations with a man. She went down to the spring and filled her jar, then came back up.

Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

Genesis 24:27
and said, "Blessed is the Lord , the God of my master Abraham. The Lord has been kind and truthful to him and has led me to my master's relatives."

Genesis 24:42
"Today I came to this spring. I said, ‘ Lord , God of my master Abraham, please make my trip successful.

Genesis 24:48
and I bowed my head and thanked the Lord . I praised the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, because he led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go, and say unto David,.... Not my servant David, as Nathan was bid to say to him when it was in his heart to build an house for him, 2 Samuel 7:5; but now he had sinned and displeased the Lord, and therefore it is only plain David:

thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three [things]; or lay them before thee to consider of which thou wouldest have done; the Targum is,

"one of three things I cast upon thee,''

as a burden to bear; one of the three I will certainly inflict upon thee by way of chastisement:

choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee; here is mercy mixed with judgment; the Lord is angry, yet shows great condescension and goodness; a sovereign Being, who could have imposed what punishment he pleased, and even all the three after mentioned, yet resolves but on one, and leaves that to the option of David.