1 Chronicles 21:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel. Now decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Either three years of famine, or three months of devastation before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him Who sent me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Common English Bible

¹² three years of famine, three months of fleeing from your enemies while your enemies’ sword overtakes you, or three days of the LORD’s sword, that is, plague in the land and the LORD’s messenger bringing disaster in every part of Israel. Decide now what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Either three years of famine, or three months for you to flee from your enemies, unable to escape from their sword, or three days for the sword of the Lord and a pestilence to turn within the land, with the Angel of the Lord killing in every part of Israel. Now therefore, see what I should respond to him who sent me."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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.

1 Chronicles 21:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year, and David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

2 Kings 19:35

That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”

1 Chronicles 21:11

So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Take your choice:

Psalm 91:6

or the pestilence that stalks in darkness or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Exodus 12:23

For the Lord will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you down.

Isaiah 66:16

For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon all the bare heights in the desert, spoilers have come, for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no one shall be safe.

Jeremiah 42:16

then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there, in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you dread shall follow close after you into Egypt, and there you shall die.

Jeremiah 47:6

Ah, sword of the Lord! How long until you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.

Leviticus 26:10

You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to make way for the new.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.

Luke 4:25

But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land,

Acts 12:23

And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees that I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scurvy, and itch, of which you cannot be healed.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.