1 Chronicles 21:11-13

International Standard Version

¹¹ Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Make a choice for yourself: ¹² Either three years of famine, or three months of reversals^[a] as you are swept away by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days with the sword of the Lord, consisting of pestilence infecting the land, with the angel of the Lord wreaking destruction from border to border throughout all^[b] of Israel.’ Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me.”

¹³ So David replied to Gad, “This is a very bad choice for me to make! Let me now please fall into the hand of the Lord, because his mercy is very great, but may I never fall into human hands!”