[[1 Chron-21]] Prev: [[Prophecies in 1 Chron-20]] | Next: [[Prophecies in 1 Chron-22]] --- ### Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 'Go and speak to David, saying, "Yahweh says, 'I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'"' ... either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes ... or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh's angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel.' *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The prophet Gad delivers a divine word to King David, offering a choice of three specific future calamities as punishment for his unauthorized census: three years of famine, three months of military defeat, or three days of divine pestilence. *Historical context*: Theologians identify this as a direct prophetic ultimatum from God to David, testing his trust in divine mercy versus human intervention. David's choice of the 'sword of Yahweh' (pestilence) led to a significant historical event in the narrative of the Israelite monarchy. *Related to*: ### So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: Following David's choice to fall into the hand of God rather than men, a pestilence immediately strikes Israel as predicted by Gad, resulting in the death of 70,000 men. *Historical context*: This event is recorded as a literal historical judgment in both [[1 Chron|1 Chronicles 21]] and [[2 Sam|2 Samuel 24]], occurring shortly after David's census. It serves as the narrative catalyst for the purchase of the site of the future Temple in Jerusalem. *Related to*: Gad's prophecy to David offering a choice of three punishments ([[1 Chron-21#v10|1 Chronicles 21:10]]-12). ### Then Yahweh's angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The Angel of the Lord designates the threshing floor of Ornan as the specific site where David must build an altar. This location is later identified by David as the site for the future House of God. *Historical context*: While presented as a command, this acts as a prophetic designation of the location for the central sanctuary of Israel. [[In|In 1]] [[Chr-22#v1|Chronicles 22:1]], David explicitly declares, 'This is the house of Yahweh God,' identifying the site's ultimate purpose. *Related to*: ### David built an altar to Yahweh there... and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: David builds the altar at the commanded location, and God confirms the site's sanctity with fire from heaven, marking it as the definitive place for national worship. *Historical context*: The fulfillment of this site's purpose is recorded in [[2 Chron-03#v1|2 Chronicles 3:1]], which states that Solomon began building the Temple on Mount Moriah, specifically 'in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.' Archaeologists and historians associate this site with the Temple Mount in modern-day Jerusalem. *Related to*: The command by the Angel of the Lord to raise an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan ([[1 Chron-21#v18|1 Chronicles 21:18]]). --- #ai_prophecy