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1 Chronicles 21:7

Sin

5 And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.

This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.

8 Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

9 And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer,

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BSB
This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.
KJV
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
WEB
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
ASV
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
DARBY
And God was displeased on account of this thing, and he smote Israel.
BLB
And it was evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He struck Israel.
ÅB
Det som var skjedd, var ondt i Guds øyne, og han slo Israel.
OTB
Gud var misfornøyd med denne handlingen,
så Han brakte trøbbel over Israel.
B1930
Det som var skjedd, var ondt i Guds øine, og han slo Israel.

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  • 2 Samuel 21:1

    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

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  • Joshua 22:16–26

    “This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?

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  • 2 Samuel 24:1

    Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

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  • Joshua 7:13

    Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:14

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

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  • Joshua 7:1

    The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.

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  • 2 Samuel 21:14

    And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

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  • 1 Kings 15:5

    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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