¹¹ When 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.’”

¹³ Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven^[a] years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemies with them in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide^[b] what I should tell the one who sent me.”