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1 Chronicles 21:14

Judgment

12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Numbers 16:46–49

    And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

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  • 2 Kings 19:35

    And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

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  • 2 Samuel 24:15

    So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

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  • 1 Chronicles 27:24

    Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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  • Numbers 25:9

    And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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  • Exodus 12:30

    And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:19

    And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

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