blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
This morning in my daily Bible reading, I was finishing up 2 Samuel. In the last chapter, David does a census and is then given a choice of punishments:
2Sa 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him,
[1]Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or
[2]wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or
[3]that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
David chose the 3rd one and verse 15 says:
2Sa 24:15 So the LORD 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.
Wow! 70,000 men died.
Do you think David made the best choice? If you were David, which do you think you would have chosen and why?
[Edited on 12-17-2004 by blhowes]
2Sa 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him,
[1]Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or
[2]wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or
[3]that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
David chose the 3rd one and verse 15 says:
2Sa 24:15 So the LORD 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.
Wow! 70,000 men died.
Do you think David made the best choice? If you were David, which do you think you would have chosen and why?
[Edited on 12-17-2004 by blhowes]