1 Chronicles 21:7

Bishop's Bible

And the Lorde was displeased with this thing, and smote Israel.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Yisra'el.

King James Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

English Standard Version
But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.

New Century Version
David had done something God had said was wrong, so God punished Israel.

New English Translation
God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel.

Amplified Bible
Now God was displeased with this act [of arrogance and pride], and He struck Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.

World English Bible
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
And this thing was displeasing in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

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

Contemporary English Version
David's order to count the people made God angry, and he punished Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
God was displeased with this and therefore punished Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And God was displeased on account of this thing, and he smote Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
David had done a bad thing in God's sight, so God punished Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD was displeased with this thing, because David had numbered Israel.

Good News Translation
God was displeased with what had been done, so he punished Israel.

Lexham English Bible
But this word was displeasing in the eyes of God, and he struck Israel.

Literal Translation
And it was evil in the eyes of God as to this thing, and He struck Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But this displeased God righte sore: for he smote Israel.

American Standard Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he smote Israel.

English Revised Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe that that was comaundid displeside the Lord, and he smoot Israel.

Update Bible Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.

New King James Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel.

New Living Translation
God was very displeased with the census, and he punished Israel for it.

New Life Bible
God was not pleased that Israel was numbered so He punished Israel.

New Revised Standard
But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it was displeasing in the eyes of God, concerning this thing, - therefore smote he Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.

Revised Standard Version
But God was displeased with this thing, and he smote Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.

Contextual Overview

⁷ And the Lorde was displeased with this thing, and smote Israel. ⁸ And Dauid sayde vnto God: I haue sinned exceedingly in doyng this thing: And nowe I besech thee, do away the wickednesse of thy seruaunt, for I haue done very foolyshly. ⁹ And the Lord spake vnto Gad Dauids sear, saying: ¹⁰ Go, and tell Dauid, saying, thus sayth the Lord, I geue thee the choyse of three thinges: choose the one of them, that I may do vnto thee. ¹¹ And Gad came to Dauid, and sayd vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: Choose thee ¹² Eyther three yeres famishment, or three monethes to be destroyed before thyne aduersaries, & that the sworde of thyne enemies may ouertake thee: or els the sworde of the Lord and pestilence in the lande three dayes, and the angell of the Lorde destroying throughout all the coastes of Israel: And nowe aduise thy selfe, what worde I shal bring againe to him that sent me. ¹³ And Dauid sayde vnto Gad, I am in an exceeding strayte: Let me fall nowe into the hande of the Lorde (for passing great are his mercies) but let me not fal into the hand of men. ¹⁴ So the Lorde sent pestilence vpon Israel: and there were ouerthrowen of Israel threescore and ten thousande men. ¹⁵ And God sent the angell into Hierusalem to destroy it: And as he was about to destroy, the Lorde behelde, and had compassion on the euyll, & sayde to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, let nowe thyne hand ceasse. And the angel of the Lorde stoode by the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite. ¹⁶ And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the angell of the Lorde stand betweene the earth and heauen, hauing a drawen sword in his hand, stretched out toward Hierusalem: Then Dauid and the elders of Israel whiche were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And God was displeased with this thing: Heb. And it was evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, 2 Samuel 11:27, 1 Kings 15:5

he smote: 1 Chronicles 21:14, Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 7:13, Joshua 22:16-26, 2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 21:14, 2 Samuel 24:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:10 - displeased Genesis 48:17 - displeased him Exodus 4:14 - anger Numbers 22:34 - if it displease thee 1 Kings 11:9 - angry

Cross-References

Genesis 21:11
And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

Genesis 21:12
And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.

Genesis 21:32
Thus made they a leage together at Beer seba: and Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne rose vp, and turned agayne into the lande of the Philistines.

Genesis 21:34
And Abraham soiourned in the Philistines lande a long season.

Numbers 23:23
For there is no sorcerie in Iacob, nor soothsaying in Israel, according to this time it shalbe sayde of Iacob and Israel: What hath God wrought?

Psalms 86:8
Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde: there is not one that can do as thou doest.

Psalms 86:10
For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges: thou art God alone.

Isaiah 49:21
Then shalt thou thinke by thy selfe, who hath begotten me these, seeyng I am barren and alone, a captiue and an outcast? and who hath norished them vp for me? I am desolate and alone, but from whence come these?

Isaiah 66:8
Who euer heard or sawe such thinges? doth the grounde beare in one day? or are the people borne all at once, as Sion trauayled in childe birth and bare her sonnes?

Ephesians 3:10
To thintent that nowe vnto the rulers and power in heauenly [thynges] myght be knowen by ye Church, the very manyfolde wysedome of God:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".