1 Chronicles 21:13

Catholic Public Domain Version

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."

Cross References

2 Kings 6:15

Now the servant of the man of God, arising at first light, went out and saw the army all around the city, with horses and chariots. And he reported it to him, saying: "Alas, alas, alas, my lord! What shall we do?"

2 Kings 7:4

If we choose to enter the city, we will die from the famine. And if we remain here, we also will die. Therefore, come and let us flee over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we will live. But if they choose to kill us, we will die anyway."

2 Chronicles 28:9

At that time, there was a prophet of the Lord there, named Oded. And going out to meet the army arriving in Samaria, he said to them: "Behold, the Lord, the God of your fathers, having become angry against Judah, has delivered them into your hands. But you have killed them by atrocities, so that your cruelty has reached up to heaven.

Esther 4:11

He went for a walk every day, in the front courtyard of the house in which the chosen virgins were kept, having concern for Esther's welfare and wanting to know what would happen to her.

Esther 4:16

And so she was led to the chamber of king Artaxerxes, in the tenth month, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Psalm 103:8

The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them.

Psalm 106:7

And he led them in the right way, so that they might go forth to a city of habitation.

Psalm 5:7

You hate all who work iniquity. You will destroy all who speak a lie. The bloody and deceitful man, the Lord will abominate.

Psalm 86:5

Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

Proverbs 12:10

The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

Isaiah 46:7

They carry him on their shoulders, supporting him, and they set him in his place. And he will stand still and will not move from his place. But even when they will cry out to him, he will not hear. He will not save them from tribulation.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.

Isaiah 63:15

Gaze down from heaven, and behold from your holy habitation and from your glory. Where is your zeal, and your strength, the fullness of your heart and of your compassion? They have held themselves back from me.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the compassion of the Lord, the praise of the Lord over all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and over the multitude of his good things for the house of Israel, which he has granted to them according to his leniency, and according to the multitude of his mercies.

Lamentations 3:32

CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?"

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the Lord, and he said, "I beg you, Lord, was this not my word, when I was still in my own land? Because of this, I knew beforehand to flee into Tarshish. For I know that you are a lenient and merciful God, patient and great in compassion, and forgiving despite ill will.

Micah 7:18

What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.

Habakkuk 3:2

Lord, I heard what has been said about you, and I was afraid. Lord, your work, in the midst of years, revive it. In the midst of years, you will make it known. When you have become angry, you will remember mercy.

John 12:27

Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But it is for this reason that I came to this hour.

Philippians 1:23

For I am constrained between the two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is the far better thing,

Hebrews 10:31

It is dreadful to fall into the hands of the living God.