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1 Chronicles 21:11

in 1 Chronicles 21

So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:

KJV

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

This verse in 1 Chronicles 21

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Gad, David’s seer

on 1 Chronicles 21:9-13

Chronicles names Gad's office, “David’s seer”, before the word arrives. The third option is spelled out, “three days of the sword of the LORD”, with “the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel”. Albert Barnes notes that the angel is named here and nowhere in Samuel's version.

This site's exposition

You must choose

Gad carries the message to David in the LORD's own words. The seer serves as go-between again at verse 18, when the angel sends him. Albert Barnes notes that the choice in verse 12 names the angel of the LORD, preparing for the angel David sees at verse 16.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֥בֹאand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • גָ֖דGad

    gadH1410 →72 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דָּוִ֑ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • ל֛וֹto him

    lo

  • כֹּֽה־thus

    koh-H3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֥רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • קַבֶּל־take

    kabel-H6901 →

  • לָֽךְ׃for yourself

    lakh

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 19:20

    Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 12:15

      The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.

    • Proverbs 8:34–35

      Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

    • Proverbs 2:1–9

      My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

    • Proverbs 1:8

      Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

    • Proverbs 4:1

      Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.