2 Samuel 24:13

Modern English Version

So Gad came to David and told him. He said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now consider and advise what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

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

2 Samuel 24:12

“Go and speak to David: Thus says the Lord: Three options I am laying before you. Choose for yourself one of them, and I will do this to you.”

2 Kings 8:1

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

1 Chronicles 21:12

either three years of famine, or three months of being swept away before your foes while the sword of your enemy overtakes you, or three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now then consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

Psalm 91:6

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that strikes at noonday.

Exodus 7:25

Seven days passed after the Lord had struck the river.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sins against Me by trespassing grievously, then I will stretch out My hand against it, and break the staff of the bread, and send famine against it, and cut off man and beast from it.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield her increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring a sword upon you that shall extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you truthfully, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will strike you with a wasting disease, with a fever, with an inflammation, with an extreme heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:25

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

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will strike you in the knees and legs with sore boils that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:52

He will lay siege on you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land, and he will lay siege on you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master and against all his household. He is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”