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1 Chronicles 21:14

Judgment

12 between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

13 David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

15 Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

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BSB
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
KJV
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
WEB
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
ASV
So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
DARBY
And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
BLB
And YHWH sent a plague upon Israel, and fell from Israel seventy thousand men.
ÅB
Så lot Herren det komme en pest i Israel, og det falt sytti tusen mann av Israel.
OTB
Så sendte Herren en pest over Israel,
og sytti tusen menn av Israel falt.
B1930
Så lot Herren det komme en pest i Israel, og det falt sytti tusen mann av Israel.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Numbers 16:46–49

    Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

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  • 2 Kings 19:35

    And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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  • 2 Samuel 24:15

    So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

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  • 1 Chronicles 27:24

    Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

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  • Numbers 25:9

    but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

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  • Exodus 12:30

    During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:19

    But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

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