12|Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, |I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.|'|


In Context

9 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, |I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.|

11 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

12 |Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, |I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.|'|

13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, |Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.|

14 David said to Gad, |I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.|

2 Samuel 24:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:12"Go and tell David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.' "

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Go 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Go, 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Go and say to David, Thus saith Jehovah: I impose on thee three things; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Go and speak unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Go and say to David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it to thee.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, Thus said Jehovah: Three — I am lifting up for thee, choose thee one of them, and I do it to thee.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Go and say to David, Thus said the LORD, I offer you three things; choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.