1 Chronicles 21:10 Meaning and Explanation
“Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.”
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Read Full Chapter →Through Gad the LORD offers David a choice among three forms of judgment.
What Does 1 Chronicles 21:10 Mean?
The word for Gad to carry is set out: the Lord offers David three possibilities and bids him choose one. Judgment will come, but its form is placed in the king's own hands. "Thus saith the LORD" frames the message as God's direct decree.
Even in chastening, God grants dignity and choice. He does not simply impose; He invites David to decide, drawing the penitent into the process. This is the strange gentleness of divine justice, that it leaves room for a man's trust to show itself. How we choose under judgment reveals what we believe about the One who judges.
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What does 1 Chronicles 21:10 mean?
Through Gad the LORD offers David a choice among three forms of judgment.