2 Samuel 24:14
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Yahuah; for his mercies great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
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12 Go and say unto David, Thus says the Yahuah, I offer you three ; choose you one of them, that I may unto you.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or that there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Yahuah; for his mercies great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the Yahuah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Yahuah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now your hand. And the angel of the Yahuah was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.