However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto you shall surely die.
2 Samuel 24:12 - King James 2000 Go and say unto David, Thus says the LORD, I offer you three things; choose you one of them, that I may do it unto you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Go and say to David, Thus says the Lord, I hold over you three choices; select one of them, so I may bring it upon you. American Standard Version (1901) Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. Common English Bible Go and tell David, This is what the LORD says: I’m offering you three punishments. Choose one of them, and that is what I will do to you. Catholic Public Domain Version "Go, and say to David: 'Thus says the Lord: I present to you a choice of three things. Choose one of these, whichever you will, so that I may do it to you.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things. Choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee. |
However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto you shall surely die.
And when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? now consider, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in just measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity:
The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.