And Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you.”’”11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take for yourself12 either three years of […]

WAR WITH PHILISTINE GIANTS Now it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the force of the military and brought the land of the sons of Ammon to ruin, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and tore […]