So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land?
Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you?
Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land?
Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
David said to Gad, “I am in distress.
Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great.
Let me not fall into man’s hand.”