1 Chronicles 21:11

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So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:

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  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

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    9 Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,

    10 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

  • 2 Sam 24:11-14
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    11 And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

    12 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, and I will do it to you.

    13 So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.

    14 And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

  • 1 Chr 21:12-13
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    12 Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

    13 And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

  • 1 Chr 21:16-19
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    16 And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

    17 And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

    18 Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    19 And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 24:18-19
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    18 And that day Gad came to David and said to him, Go up, and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

    19 So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.

  • 1 Sam 22:5
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    5 And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

  • 1 Sam 23:2
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    2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

  • 1 Chr 17:2-3
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    2 And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.

    3 But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  • 2 Sam 21:3
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    3 So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?

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    18 And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

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    4 Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.

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    1 In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

  • 1 Sam 23:10-12
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    10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

    11 And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.

    12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
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    32 And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

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  • 2 Sam 24:21
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    21 And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To give you a price for your grain-floor, so that I may put up an altar to the Lord, and the disease may be stopped among the people.

  • 1 Chr 21:22-23
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    22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.

    23 And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.

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    19 And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

  • 1 Sam 12:13
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    17 So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

  • 1 Chr 14:10
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    18 For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

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