1 Chronicles 17:4

17:4 “Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must not build me a house in which to live.

1 Chronicles 21:10

21:10 “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”¹

21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

¹tn Heb “Three I am extending to you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.”