2 Samuel 24:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great, but let me not fall into human hands.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 9:8

He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”

2 Kings 6:15

When an attendant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. His servant said, “Alas, master! What shall we do?”

1 Chronicles 21:13

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but let me not fall into human hands.”

Psalm 119:156

Great is your mercy, O Lord; be gracious to me according to your justice.

Psalm 130:4

But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Psalm 51:1

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 39:17

But I will save you on that day, says the Lord, and you shall not be handed over to those whom you dread.

Lamentations 3:22

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, but we have rebelled against him

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Zechariah 1:15

and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse.

John 12:27

“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say: ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.

Philippians 1:23

I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,

1 Samuel 13:6

When the Israelites saw that they were in distress (for the troops were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.