So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
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Gill's Exposition
So Gad came to David, and told him,.... Said nothing to him about his sin, but correction for it; which confirms it that David was made sensible of his sin before he came to him:
and said unto him,…
Barnes' Notes
Compare Eze 14:13-21. The “seven” years of famine correspond with the “seven” years of famine in Gen 41:27, Gen 41:30, and with the same number of years in 2Ki 8:1. But in Chronicles, it is “three…
Adam Clarke
Shall seven years of famine - In Ch1 21:12, the number is three, not seven; and here the Septuagint has three, the same as in Chronicles: this is no doubt the true reading, the letter ז zain, Seven,…
Cambridge Bible
seven years of famine The reading of the Sept. and Chron. is three years, and this is unquestionably to be preferred, as required by the symmetry of the statement. Famine, war, and pestilence are…
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