1 Chronicles 21:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And David said to Gad, I am in great and distressing perplexity; let me fall, I pray you, into the hands of the Lord, for very great and many are His mercies; but let me not fall into the hands of man.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

Common English Bible

¹³ “I’m in deep trouble,” David said to Gad. “I’d rather fall into the hands of the LORD, who is very merciful; don’t let me fall into human hands.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And David said to Gad: "There are difficulties pressing upon me from every side. But it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait; but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.

1 Chronicles 21:13 Cross References

2 Kings 6:15

And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.

Esther 4:11

All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Esther 4:16

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Psalm 119:156

Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: Quicken me according to thy judgements.

Psalm 130:4

But there is forgiveness with thee, That thou mayest be feared.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is mercy, And with him is plenteous redemption

Psalm 5:7

But as for me, in the multitude of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalm 69:13

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Isaiah 47:6

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us; and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Lamentations 3:32

For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Jonah 3:9

Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Habakkuk 3:2

O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

John 12:27

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.

Philippians 1:23

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.