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Christian Standard Bible ®

1 Chronicles 21:14

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Miracles;   Nation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Pestilence ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gad, the Prophet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gad;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Pestilence;  

Parallel Translations

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.
Bible in Basic English
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of 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

7This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel. 8David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now, please take away your servant’s guilt, for I’ve been very foolish.” 9Then the Lord instructed Gad, David’s seer, 10“Go and say to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three choices. Choose one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.’” 11So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice: 12three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—a plague on the land, the angel of the Lord bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.” 13David answered Gad, “I’m in anguish. Please, let me fall into the Lord’s hands because his mercies are very great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.” 14So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelite men died. 15Then God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when the angel was about to destroy the city, the Lord looked, relented concerning the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

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
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 19:27
Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:7
She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”
Genesis 21:23
Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”
Genesis 21:25
But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.
Genesis 22:19
Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".


 
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