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1 Chronicles 21:10

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“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
1 Chronicles 21:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
  • KJV Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
  • NKJV “Go and tell David, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ”
  • NASB “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I extend to you three choices; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.” ’ ”
  • NLT “Go and say to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will give you three choices. Choose one of these punishments, and I will inflict it on you.’”

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Quick answer

God offers David a choice among three judgments. It shows the Lord granting David a measure of mercy even in discipline.

Overview

Through Gad, God offers David one of three forms of chastisement. That David is given a choice reveals mercy within judgment, allowing him to throw himself on God's character. The offer sets up David's profound statement of trust in the Lord's compassion in verse 13.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 7

  • 1 Kgs 13:21–22and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  • Prov 1:29–31For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
  • Num 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
  • Josh 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
  • Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
  • Prov 3:12for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
  • 2 Sam 12:10–12Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

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Christ at the center

The genealogies and the everlasting covenant with David trace the single thread of promise running through the generations straight to the Christ in whom the line reaches its goal.

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Goיָלַךְand tellדָבַרDavidדָּוִדsayingאָמַרThus saithאָמַרthe LORDיְהֹוָהI offerנָטָהthee threeשָׁלוֹשׁthings: chooseבָּחַרthee oneאֶחָדof themהֵנָּהthat I may doעָשָׂה
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