2 Samuel 24:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, ‘Do you want three  years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes for three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land for three days? Now, consider carefully  what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.’

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:12

three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord  #– #a plague on the land, the angel of the Lord bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.” Now decide what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.’

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David enquired  of the Lord. The Lord answered, ‘It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.’

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring a sword against you  to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

Luke 4:25

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,   when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

Ezekiel 14:13

‘Son of man, suppose a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its supply of bread,  to send famine through it, and to wipe out both people and animals from it.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs #– #from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:27

‘The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt,  tumours, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.  You will be an object of horror  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,  blight, and mildew;  these will pursue you until you perish.

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength will be used up for nothing.  Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

2 Samuel 24:12

‘Go and say to David, “This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three choices. Choose one of them, and I will do it to you.” ’

Exodus 7:25

Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now consider carefully  what you should do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him! ’

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life,  ‘Get ready, you and your household, and go and live as a resident foreigner wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine,  and it has already come to the land.’