Q. Why, in 2 Samuel 24:13, does God propose to David that seven years famine should be sent upon him, while in 1 Chron. 21:12 only three years are named?
A. The Septuagint, or Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures, which was translated some 200 years before Christ, is constantly quoted by the Lord and the apostles in the New Testament, and thus in measure authorized by Him. It gives in 2 Samuel 14 “three years,” the same reading as 1 Chronicles.