2 Samuel 24:10-17

10Now 1David’s heart 2troubled him after he had counted the people. So David said to the Lord, “3I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, Lord, please 4overlook the guilt of Your servant, for 5I have acted very foolishly.” 11When David got up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to 6Gad the prophet, David’s 7seer, saying, 12“Go and speak to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am imposing upon you three choices; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do it to you.”’” 13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall 8seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee for three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” 14Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord, 9for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

15So 10the Lord 11sent a plague upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people 12from Dan to Beersheba died. 1613When the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, 14the Lord relented of the disaster and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now drop your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, 15it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but 16these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house!”