1 Chronicles 21:13
David said to Gad,“I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”
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- Ps 130:7 : 7 O Israel, hope in the LORD, for the LORD exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.
- Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.
- Ps 103:8 : 8 The LORD is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
- Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
- Ps 130:4 : 4 But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.
- Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.
- Isa 46:7 : 7 They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.
- Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
- Isa 55:7 : 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- Isa 63:7 : 7 A Prayer for Divine Intervention I will tell of the faithful acts of the LORD, of the LORD’s praiseworthy deeds. I will tell about all the LORD did for us, the many good things he did for the family of Israel, because of his compassion and great faithfulness.
- Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion!
- Lam 3:32 : 32 Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
- Jonah 3:9 : 9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”
- Jonah 4:2 : 2 He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
- Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?
- Hab 3:2 : 2 LORD, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, LORD, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
- John 12:27 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
- Phil 1:23 : 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,
- Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Exod 34:6-7 : 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
- 2 Kgs 6:15 : 15 The prophet’s attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,“Oh no, my master! What will we do?”
- 2 Kgs 7:4 : 4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we’ll live; if they kill us– well, we were going to die anyway.”
- 2 Chr 28:9 : 9 Oded, a prophet of the LORD, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them:“Look, because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.
- Esth 4:11 : 11 “All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court– that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”
- Esth 4:16 : 16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”
- Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.
- Ps 51:1-2 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts! 2 Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
- Ps 69:13 : 13 O LORD, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! O God, because of your great loyal love, answer me with your faithful deliverance!
- Ps 69:16 : 16 Answer me, O LORD, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!
- Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
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- 2 Sam 24:10-145 verses95%
10David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
11When David got up the next morning, the LORD’s message had already come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:
12“Go, tell David,‘This is what the LORD has said: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’”
13Gad went to David and told him,“Shall seven years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”
14David said to Gad,“I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”
- 1 Chr 21:16-194 verses78%
16David looked up and saw the LORD’s angel standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
17David said to God,“Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! As for these sheep– what have they done? O LORD my God, attack me and my family, but remove the plague from your people!”
18So the LORD’s angel told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the LORD.
- 1 Chr 21:8-125 verses76%
8David said to God,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
9The LORD told Gad, David’s prophet,
10“Go, tell David,‘This is what the LORD says:“I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”
11Gad went to David and told him,“This is what the LORD says:‘Pick one of these:
12three years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, or three days being struck down by the LORD, during which a plague will invade the land and the LORD’s angel will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”
- 2 Sam 24:17-182 verses75%
17When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the LORD,“Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep– what have they done? Attack me and my family.”
18David Acquires a Threshing Floor and Constructs an Altar There So Gad went to David that day and told him,“Go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
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1David Aligns Himself with the Philistines David thought to himself,“One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”
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18He went on to say,“Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done?
19So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the LORD! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the LORD’s inheritance, saying,‘Go on, serve other gods!’
20Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the LORD’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country.”
21Saul replied,“I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you anymore, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!”
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11Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, please inform your servant!”Then the LORD said,“He will come down.”
12David asked,“Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul’s hand?” The LORD said,“They will deliver you over.”
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21Saul replied,“May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
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9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
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13“You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the LORD helped me.
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14So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.
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14But I trust in you, O LORD! I declare,“You are my God!”
15You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.
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7I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am.
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13when they prayed:“Have mercy on me, LORD! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!
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13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
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9He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’
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20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.
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18The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.
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12For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
13Please be willing, O LORD, to rescue me! O LORD, hurry and help me!
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15May the LORD be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”
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10David asked God,“Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The LORD said to him,“March up! I will hand them over to you!”
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14As to my case, I am in your power. Do to me what you deem fair and proper.
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5Then Gad the prophet said to David,“Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
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21O sovereign LORD, intervene on my behalf for the sake of your reputation! Because your loyal love is good, deliver me!
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23The LORD rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. Even though today the LORD delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the LORD’s chosen one.
24In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all danger.”
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19So David asked the LORD,“Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The LORD said to David,“March up, for I will indeed hand the Philistines over to you.”
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15David said to him,“Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said,“Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
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22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
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13Then David exclaimed to Nathan,“I have sinned against the LORD!” Nathan replied to David,“Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
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2So David asked the LORD,“Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The LORD said to David,“Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”
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10David went on to say,“As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.