BIBLE PEOPLE | GAD, THE PROPHET

1. Bible People

a) The Bible is an historic record of real people and places. 

b) Here is a brief biography of such a person during Bible times.

2. Gad, the Prophet

a) Gad, the prophet, first appears in the Bible to persuade David to leave his place of safety in Moab and return to Judah, where the insanely jealous King Saul awaited him. later on, after David had a census taken of Israel, Gad gave David a choice of punishments from the Lord for carrying out that rash act. David chose the three day plague. 

b) During the plague, which took 70,000 lives, Gad, the prophet, told David to build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:18). The burnt offerings from this altar, caused the Lord to stop the plague. The threshing floor, later, became the site of King Solomons Temple. In 2 Chronicles 29:25, Gad, along with David and the prophet Nathan, "stationed the Levite's in the Lord's house with cymbals, harps and lyres", according to the prescriptions "from the Lord through His prophets." Gad is described as David's seer in 1 Chronicles 21:9.

c) The name Gad means Gad "Good fortune."