1 Chronicles 21:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ “Go and speak to David saying: Thus says the Lord: ‘I will offer you three options. Choose one of them so that I might do it to you.’ ”

¹¹ Gad came to David and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Choose for yourself ¹² three years of famine, or three months of being defeated by your enemies, with the swords of your foes striking you down, or else three days of the sword of the Lord. Plague will be in the land, and the angel of the Lord will cause destruction all throughout the territory of Israel.’ Think about the answer I should take back to him who sent me.”