KJV King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
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1 Chronicles 21:9
And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
ASV American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 21
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]: choose thee one of them, that I may do [it] unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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2 Samuel 24:11For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,1 Samuel 9:9(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)1 Chronicles 29:29Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
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