Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

Did Gad offer David the option of seven years of famine or three?

2 Samuel 24:13, "So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, 'Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.' " (NASB)

1 Chronicles 21:11-12, "So Gad came to David and said to him, 'Thus says the LORD, 'Take for yourself either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.' " (NASB)

According to 2 Samuel chapter 24, Gad the prophet came to David and offered him the option of either seven years of famine over the land, three months of being pursued by his enemies, or three days of pestilence. However, the same account in 1 Chronicles chapter 21 records Gad's offer as either three years of famine, three months of being pursued by his enemies, or three days of pestilence.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)