David said to Gad, “I am in distress.
Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great.
Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it.
As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough.
Now withdraw your hand.”
the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.