1 Chronicles 21:11

Complete Jewish Bible

Gad came to David and said to him, "Take your choice:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice:

Hebrew Names Version
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Take which you will:

King James Version
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Choose thee

English Standard Version
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord , ‘Choose what you will:

New Century Version
So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: ‘Choose for yourself

New English Translation
Gad went to David and told him, "This is what the Lord says: ‘Pick one of these:

Amplified Bible
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Choose for yourself

New American Standard Bible
So Gad came to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take for yourself

World English Bible
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will:

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Gad came to Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to thee

Legacy Standard Bible
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take for yourself

Berean Standard Bible
So Gad went and said to David, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice

Contemporary English Version
Gad went to David and told him: You must choose how the Lord will punish you:

Darby Translation
And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah:

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Gad went to David. He said to David, "The Lord says, ‘David, choose which punishment you want: three years without enough food, or three months of running away from your enemies while they use their swords to chase you, or three days of punishment from the Lord . Terrible sicknesses will spread through the country, and the Lord 's angel will go through Israel destroying the people.' David, God sent me. Now, you must decide which answer I will give to him."

George Lamsa Translation
So Gad the prophet came to David and said to him, Thus says the LORD: Choose for yourself

Good News Translation
Gad went to David, told him what the Lord had said, and asked, "Which is it to be?

Lexham English Bible
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: ‘Choose for yourself:

Literal Translation
And Gad came to David and said to him, So says Jehovah, Choose for yourself:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha Gad came to Dauid, he spake vnto him: Thus sayeth the LORDE: Chose ye

American Standard Version
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:

Bible in Basic English
So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Gad came to Dauid, and sayd vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: Choose thee

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Gad came to David, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Take which thou wilt:

King James Version (1611)
So Gad came to Dauid, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose for thyself,

English Revised Version
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Take which thou wilt;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Gad was comen to Dauid, he seide to Dauid, The Lord seith these thingis, Chese thou that that thou wolt, ether pestilence thre yeer,

Update Bible Version
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will:

Webster's Bible Translation
So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

New King James Version
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Choose for yourself,

New Living Translation
So Gad came to David and said, "These are the choices the Lord has given you.

New Life Bible
So Gad came to David and said, "This is what the Lord says. ‘Choose one of these.

New Revised Standard
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord , ‘Take your choice:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Gad came unto David, - and said to him, Thus, saith Yahweh,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:

Revised Standard Version
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Take which you will:

Young's Literal Translation
And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee --

THE MESSAGE
Gad delivered the message to David: "Do you want three years of famine, three months of running from your enemies while they chase you down, or three days of the sword of God —an epidemic unleashed on the country by an angel of God ? Think it over and make up your mind. What shall I tell the One who sent me?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Take for yourself

Contextual Overview

⁷ God was displeased with this and therefore punished Isra'el. ⁸ David said to God, "I have greatly sinned by doing this. But now, please! Put aside your servant's sin, for I have done a very foolish thing." ⁹ Adonai spoke to Gad, David's seer: ¹⁰ "Go and tell David that Adonai says, ‘I am offering you a choice of three punishments: choose one of them, and I will execute it against you.'" ¹¹ Gad came to David and said to him, "Take your choice: ¹² three years of famine; or three months of being swept away by your enemies, while your enemies' sword overwhelms you; or three days of Adonai 's sword — plague in the land, with the angel of Adonai destroying everywhere in Isra'el's territory. Now think about what answer I should give to the one who sent me." ¹³ David said to Gad, "This is very hard for me. Let me fall into the hand of Adonai , because his mercies are very great, rather than have me fall into the hand of man." ¹⁴ So Adonai sent a plague on Isra'el; 70,000 of the people of Isra'el died. ¹⁵ God also sent an angel to destroy Yerushalayim, but when he was about to carry out the destruction, Adonai saw it and changed his mind about causing such distress; so he said to the destroying angel, "Enough! Now withdraw your hand." The angel of Adonai was standing at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Y'vusi. ¹⁶ David raised his eyes and saw the angel of Adonai standing between the earth and the sky, and in his hand was a drawn sword stretched out over Yerushalayim. Then David and the leaders, wearing sackcloth, fell on their faces.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Choose thee: Heb. Take to thee, Proverbs 19:20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 24:12 - I offer 1 Chronicles 21:18 - the angel

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
Avraham said to God, "If only Yishma‘el could live in your presence!"

Genesis 21:1
Adonai remembered Sarah as he had said, and Adonai did for Sarah what he had promised.

Genesis 21:2
Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the very time God had said to him.

2 Samuel 18:33
David took a census of the people who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds. Then David dispatched the people, a third of them under the command of Yo'av, a third under Avishai the son of Tz'ruyah, Yo'av's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gitti; and the king said to the people, "I will also go out with you, myself." But the people replied, "Don't go out; because if we flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; so it is better now that you stay in the city and be ready if we need help." The king answered them, "I will do whatever you think best." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. The king gave orders to Yo'av, Avishai and Ittai, "For my sake, deal gently with young Avshalom." All the people were listening when the king gave all the commanders this order concerning Avshalom. So the people went out into the field against Isra'el; the battle took place in the forest of Efrayim. The people of Isra'el were defeated there by David's servants; there was a terrible slaughter that day of 20,000 men. For the battle there was spread all over the countryside; the forest devoured more people that day than did the sword. Avshalom happened to meet some of David's servants. Avshalom was riding his mule, and as the mule walked under the thick branches of a big terebinth tree, his head got caught in the terebinth, so that he was left hanging between earth and sky, as the mule went on from under him. Someone saw it and told Yo'av, "I saw Avshalom hanging in a terebinth." Yo'av asked the man who told him, "Here now, you saw it; so why didn't you strike him to the ground then and there? I would have had to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt besides." The man replied to Yo'av, "Even if I were to get a thousand pieces of silver, I still wouldn't raise my hand against the son of the king! After all, while we were listening, the king ordered you, Avishai and Ittai, ‘Be careful that no one touches young Avshalom.' Or, if I had pretended that I didn't know, the king would have known otherwise anyway; and you wouldn't have interceded for me either." Yo'av said, "I can't waste time arguing with you!" He took three darts in his hand and rammed them through Avshalom's heart while he was still alive, hanging from the terebinth. Then Yo'av's ten young armor-bearers surrounded Avshalom, struck him and killed him. Yo'av sounded the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing Isra'el, because Yo'av held back the troops. They took Avshalom and threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled a big heap of stones over him. All Isra'el fled, each one to his tent. In his own lifetime Avshalom had taken and raised for himself the pillar which stands in the King's Valley; because he said, "I don't have a son to preserve the memory of my name." So he named the pillar after himself, and it's called Avshalom's Monument to this day. Then Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok said, "Let me run now and bring news to the king that Adonai has judged in his favor by releasing him from his enemies." Yo'av said to him, "You are not to be the one to bring the news today; you can convey news another day; but today you will not bring news, because the king's son is dead." Then Yo'av said to the Ethiopian, "Go, tell the king what you saw." The Ethiopian bowed to Yo'av, then ran off. But Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok said again to Yo'av, "Come what may, please let me also run after the Ethiopian." Yo'av answered, "Why do you want to run, my son? You won't receive any reward for bringing the news." "I don't care — whatever happens, I want to run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Achima‘atz ran by the road through the desert flats and outran the Ethiopian. David was sitting between the two gates. A watchman went up to the roof of the gate and out onto the wall, raised his eyes, looked, and saw there a man running by himself. The watchman cried out and told the king. The king said, "If he's alone, he has good news to tell." As he ran along and came close, the watchman saw another man running and called to the gatekeeper, "There's another man running by himself." The king said, "He too must have good news." The watchman said, "The first one runs like Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok." The king said, "He's a good man, he comes with good news." Achima‘atz called to the king, "Shalom," prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground and said, "Blessed be Adonai your God, who has handed over the men who rebelled against my lord the king." The king asked, "Is everything all right with young Avshalom?" Achima‘atz answered, "When Yo'av sent the king's servant and me your servant, I saw a big commotion; but I didn't know what it was." The king said, "Go, and stand over there." So he went and stood there. Then up came the Ethiopian, and the Ethiopian said, "There's good news for my lord the king, for Adonai has judged in your favor and rid you of all those who rebelled against you." The king asked the Ethiopian, "Is everything all right with young Avshalom?" The Ethiopian answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rebel against you in order to harm you be as that young man is."

Matthew 10:37
Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.

Hebrews 12:11
Now, all discipline , while it is happening, does indeed seem painful, not enjoyable; but for those who have been trained by it, it later produces its peaceful fruit, which is righteousness.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".