1 Chronicles 21:14

Bible in Basic English

So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelite men died.

Hebrew Names Version
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Yisra'el; and there fell of Yisra'el seventy thousand men.

King James Version
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

English Standard Version
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

New Century Version
So the Lord sent a terrible disease on Israel, and seventy thousand people died.

New English Translation
So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

Amplified Bible
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel; seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

World English Bible
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh sent a pestilence against Israel; and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

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

Contemporary English Version
So the Lord sent a horrible disease on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites died.

Complete Jewish Bible
So Adonai sent a plague on Isra'el; 70,000 of the people of Isra'el died.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the Lord sent terrible sicknesses to Israel, and 70,000 people died.

George Lamsa Translation
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Good News Translation
So the Lord sent an epidemic on the people of Israel, and seventy thousand of them died.

Lexham English Bible
So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah sent a pestilence into Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then dyd the LORDE cause pestilence to come into Israel, so that there fell of Israel thre score & ten thousande me.

American Standard Version
So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So the Lorde sent pestilence vpon Israel: and there were ouerthrowen of Israel threescore and ten thousande men.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

King James Version (1611)
So the Lord sent pestilence vpon Israel: and there fell of Israel, seuentie thousand men.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Lord sente pestilence in to Israel, and seuenti thousynde of men felden doun of Israel.

Update Bible Version
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

New King James Version
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

New Living Translation
So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and 70,000 people died as a result.

New Life Bible
So the Lord sent a disease upon Israel. And 70,000 men of Israel died.

New Revised Standard
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand persons fell in Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Yahweh laid pestilence, upon Israel, - and there fell, of Israel, seventy thousand men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Revised Standard Version
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,

THE MESSAGE
So God unleashed an epidemic in Israel—seventy thousand Israelites died. God then sent the angel to Jerusalem but when he saw the destruction about to begin, he compassionately changed his mind and ordered the death angel, "Enough's enough! Pull back!" The angel of God had just reached the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David looked up and saw the angel hovering between earth and sky, sword drawn and about to strike Jerusalem. David and the elders bowed in prayer and covered themselves with rough burlap. David prayed, "Please! I'm the one who sinned; I'm the one at fault. But these sheep, what did they do wrong? Punish me, not them, me and my family; don't take it out on them." The angel of God ordered Gad to tell David to go and build an altar to God on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David did what Gad told him in obedience to God 's command. Meanwhile Araunah had quit threshing the wheat and was watching the angel; his four sons took cover and hid. David came up to Araunah. When Araunah saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed deeply before David, honoring the king. David said to Araunah, "Give me the site of the threshing floor so I can build an altar to God . Charge me the market price; we're going to put an end to this disaster." "O Master, my king," said Araunah, "just take it; do whatever you want with it! Look, here's an ox for the burnt offering and threshing paddles for the fuel and wheat for the meal offering—it's all yours!" David replied to Araunah, "No. I'm buying it from you, and at the full market price. I'm not going to offer God sacrifices that are no sacrifice." So David bought the place from Araunah for six hundred shekels of gold. He built an altar to God there and sacrificed Whole-Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings. He called out to God and God answered by striking the altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering with lightning. Then God told the angel to put his sword back into its scabbard. And that's the story of what happened when David saw that God answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite at the time he offered the sacrifice. At this time the Tabernacle that Moses had constructed in the desert, and with it the Altar of Burnt Offering, were set up at the worship center at Gibeon. But David, terrified by the angel's sword, wouldn't go there to

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.

Contextual Overview

⁷ And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel. ⁸ Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly. ⁹ Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying, ¹⁰ Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you. ¹¹ So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will: ¹² Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me. ¹³ And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men. ¹⁴ So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men. ¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Numbers 16:46-49, 2 Samuel 24:15

seventy: Exodus 12:30, Numbers 25:9, 1 Samuel 6:19, 2 Kings 19:35

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:12 - no plague Numbers 16:49 - fourteen thousand Joshua 22:18 - he will be 1 Chronicles 21:7 - he smote Acts 12:23 - the angel

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 19:27
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

Genesis 21:25
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

Genesis 21:31
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Genesis 21:33
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Genesis 22:3
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".