2 Samuel 24:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² “Go, and you shall speak to Dawiḏ, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I hold three options before you. Choose one of them, and I do it to you.” ’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Go and say to David, Thus says the Lord, I hold over you three choices; select one of them, so I may bring it upon you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

Common English Bible

¹² Go and tell David, This is what the LORD says: I’m offering you three punishments. Choose one of them, and that is what I will do to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² "Go, and say to David: 'Thus says the Lord: I present to you a choice of three things. Choose one of these, whichever you will, so that I may do it to you.' "

2 Samuel 24:12 Cross References

Revelation 3:19

“As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent.

Proverbs 3:12

For whom יהוה loves He reproves, As a father the son whom he delights in.

2 Samuel 12:14

“However, because by this deed you have greatly scorned יהוה, the child also who is born to you shall certainly die.”

Leviticus 26:43

‘For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.

Leviticus 26:41

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,

2 Samuel 24:11

And Dawiḏ rose up in the morning, and the word of יהוה came to the prophet Gaḏ, Dawiḏ’s seer, saying,

2 Samuel 24:13

Gaḏ then came to Dawiḏ and informed him. And he said to him, “Should seven years of scarcity of food come to you in your land? Or would you flee three new moons before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or should there be three days’ plague in your land? Now know and see what answer I take back to Him who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 27:24

Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah began a census, but he did not finish, for wrath came upon Yisra’ĕl because of this census; nor was the number recorded in the account of the annals of Sovereign Dawiḏ.

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to save you. Though I make a complete end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’