1 Chronicles 21:12

New Century Version

three years of hunger. Or choose three months of running from your enemies as they chase you with their swords. Or choose three days of punishment from the Lord, in which a terrible disease will spread through the country. The angel of the Lord will go through Israel destroying the people.’ Now, David, decide which of these things I should tell the Lord who sent me.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

During the time David was king, there was a shortage of food that lasted for three years. So David prayed to the Lord. The Lord answered, “Saul and his family of murderers are the reason for this shortage, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet from the settlers in Gilead. “I serve the Lord, the God of Israel,” Elijah said to Ahab. “As surely as the Lord lives, no rain or dew will fall during the next few years unless I command it.”

2 Kings 19:35

That night the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies.

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. He said, “Get up and go with your family. Stay any place you can, because the Lord has called for a time without food that will last seven years.”

1 Chronicles 21:11

So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Choose for yourself

Psalm 91:6

You will not be afraid of diseases that come in the dark or sickness that strikes at noon.

Exodus 12:23

When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes, and he will pass over that house. He will not let the one who brings death come into your houses and kill you.

Isaiah 66:16

The Lord will judge the people with fire, and he will destroy many people with his sword; he will kill many people.

Jeremiah 12:12

Many soldiers have marched over those barren hills. The Lord is using the armies to punish that land from one end to the other. No one is safe.

Jeremiah 42:16

You are afraid of war, but it will find you in the land of Egypt. And you are worried about hunger, but it will follow you into Egypt, and you will die there.

Jeremiah 47:6

“You cry, ‘Sword of the Lord, how long will you keep fighting? Return to your holder. Stop and be still.’

Lamentations 4:9

Those who were killed in the war were better off than those killed by hunger. They starve in pain and die, because there is no food from the field.

Leviticus 26:10

You will have enough crops to last for more than a year. When you harvest the new crops, you will have to throw out the old ones to make room for them.

Leviticus 26:17

I will be against you, and your enemies will defeat you. These people who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away even when no one is chasing you.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah. It did not rain in Israel for three and one-half years, and there was no food anywhere in the whole country.

Acts 12:23

Because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of the Lord immediately caused him to become sick, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Deuteronomy 28:15

But if you do not obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and stay:

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will punish you with disease, fever, swelling, heat, lack of rain, plant diseases, and mildew until you die.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will help your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in seven directions. And you will become a thing of horror among all the kingdoms on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will punish you with boils like those the Egyptians had. You will have bad growths, sores, and itches that can’t be cured.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will give you sore boils on your knees and legs that cannot be cured, and they will go from the soles of your feet to the tops of your heads.