1 Chronicles 21:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Either three years of famine, or three months of devastation before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him Who sent me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Common English Bible

¹² three years of famine, three months of fleeing from your enemies while your enemies’ sword overtakes you, or three days of the LORD’s sword, that is, plague in the land and the LORD’s messenger bringing disaster in every part of Israel. Decide now what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Either three years of famine, or three months for you to flee from your enemies, unable to escape from their sword, or three days for the sword of the Lord and a pestilence to turn within the land, with the Angel of the Lord killing in every part of Israel. Now therefore, see what I should respond to him who sent me."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Either three years' famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.

1 Chronicles 21:12 Tagairtí Cros

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.’

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah  the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,  , said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord God of Israel lives,  in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ’

2 Kings 19:35

That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning #– #there were all the dead bodies!

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.’

1 Chronicles 21:11

So Gad went to David and said to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Take your choice:

Exodus 12:23

When the Lord passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, he will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.

Isaiah 66:16

For the Lord will execute judgement on all humanity  with his fiery sword, and many will be slain by the  Lord.

Jeremiah 12:12

Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.

Jeremiah 42:16

then the sword  you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels  there to Egypt, and you will die there.

Jeremiah 47:6

Oh, sword of the  Lord! How long will you be restless? Go back to your sheath; be still; be silent!

Lamentations 4:9

Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Leviticus 26:10

You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

Leviticus 26:17

I will turn  against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

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.

Acts 12:23

At once an angel of the Lord  struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Deuteronomy 28:15

‘But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake  you:

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.

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 28:27

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

Deuteronomy 28:35

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.