2 Samuel 24:11-14

New International Version

¹¹ Before David got up the next morning, the word of the Lord had come to Gad^(A) the prophet, David’s seer:^{(B) 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.’”

¹³ So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three^[a] years of famine^(C) in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague^(D) in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

¹⁴ David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy^(E) is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”