Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 21:10
“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD commands Gad, David’s seer, to deliver a direct message to King David offering three punitive options. This occurs immediately after Yahweh’s instruction to Gad in the preceding verse.
The words — The Hebrew imperative לֵךְ (lekh) means "go," paired with וְדִבַּרְתָּ (ve-dibbartā) "and you will speak" to stress immediate obedience. כֹּה (koh) "thus" introduces Yahweh’s (יְהוָה) formal declaration of judgment.
The thread — This pattern of divine choice and judgment appears in Numbers 20:12 regarding Moses and Aaron’s failure to trust God, Joshua 24:15 where Israel must choose whom to serve, and 2 Samuel 12:10 where David’s house faces the sword.
Why it lands — The text demands immediate acknowledgment of divine sovereignty and personal responsibility for national sin. It requires the reader to face the reality that God’s judgments are deliberate and inescapable.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
- 2 Samuel 12:10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
- 1 Kings 13:21 and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
- Proverbs 1:29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
- Proverbs 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
- Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.