1 Chronicles 21:14
New International Version
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

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

English Standard Version
So the LORD sent a pestilence on 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.

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

NASB 1995
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.

NASB 1977
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH gave a plague in Israel, and there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Contemporary English Version
So the LORD sent a horrible disease on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the Lord sent a 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.

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

International Standard Version
Then the LORD sent a pestilence to Israel, and 70,000 men died in Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Literal Standard Version
And YHWH gives a pestilence in Israel, and there falls from Israel seventy thousand men,

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

New American Bible
Therefore the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites died.

NET Bible
So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

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

New Heart English Bible
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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

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

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Plague on Israel
14So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. 15Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 24:15
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the Lord

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…

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 Beersheba seventy thousand men.

seventy

Exodus 12:20
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, 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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1 Chronicles 21
1. David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people
5. The number of the people being brought, David repents of it
9. David having three plagues proposed by God, chooses the pestilence
14. After the death of 70,000, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
18. David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing floor;
26. where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favor by fire.
28. David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel














(14-17) The Pestilence.

(14) So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel.--So Samuel. The rest of our verse is abridged. From Samuel we learn that the plague raged throughout the land from dawn to the time of the evening sacrifice.

Verse 14. - So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel. This sentence is followed in the parallel place by "from the morning even to the time appointed." It has been suggested that "the time appointed" may mean the time of the evening sacrifice, and that God shortened thus the three days to a short one day. There seems nothing sufficient to support the suggestion, unless it might lie in the "repenting" of the Lord, and his "staying" of the angel's hand, in ver. 15. There fell of Israel seventy thousand men. The whole number of Israel, including women, must have reached near to five millions. On this assumption, the sacrifice of life for Israel would be something like 14 per cent., or fourteen in the thousand.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So the LORD
יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

sent
וַיִּתֵּ֧ן (way·yit·tên)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

a plague
דֶּ֖בֶר (de·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1698: A pestilence

on Israel,
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

and seventy
שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

thousand
אֶ֖לֶף (’e·lep̄)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 505: A thousand

men
אִֽישׁ׃ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of Israel
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (mî·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

fell dead.
וַיִּפֹּל֙ (way·yip·pōl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie


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