Graphic Bible · Scene 8 of 24

1 Chronicles 21:11-12
The three judgments
The Census, the Plague, and Ornan’s Altar · 1 Chronicles 21
Story guide: Gad describes three possible judgments. The accompanying scenes illustrate those choices; famine and enemy pursuit have not occurred in this account.
Open this scene in the reader →11So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Choose for yourself—’”
12either three years of famine, or three months of being swept away before your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, with the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel. Now consider what answer I should return to the one who sent me.
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