Great Moral Lessons from the Bible
2 Samuel 24:10-25 (Emphasis added.) And David said unto HaShem [literally, "The Name," that is, Yahweh]: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O HaShem, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.' [Among his sins, David committed adultery with Bathsheba, impregnating her, and then had her husband, Uriah, sent to a battlefront where he was killed so David could hide and sin and marry her.] And when David rose up in the morning, the word of HaShem came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying: 'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith HaShem: I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.' So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him: 'Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what ans