“Go and say to David My servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not build Me a house to inhabit;

So now, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

“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.”’”

So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take for yourself