1 Chronicles 21:14

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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

⁷ David's order to count the people made God angry, and he punished Israel. ⁸ David prayed, "I am your servant. But what I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Please forgive me." ⁹ The Lord said to Gad, one of David's prophets, ¹⁰ "Tell David that I will punish him in one of three ways. But he will have to choose which one it will be." ¹¹ Gad went to David and told him: You must choose how the Lord will punish you: ¹² Will there be three years when the land won't grow enough food for its people? Or will your enemies constantly defeat you for three months? Or will the Lord send a horrible disease to strike your land for three days? Think about it and decide, because I have to give your answer to God who sent me. ¹³ David was miserable and said, "It's a terrible choice to make! But the Lord is kind, and I'd rather have him punish me than for anyone else to do it." ¹⁴ So the Lord sent a horrible disease on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites died. ¹⁵ Then he sent an angel to destroy the city of Jerusalem. But just as the angel was about to do that, the Lord felt sorry for all the suffering he had caused the people, and he told the angel, "Stop! They have suffered enough." This happened at the threshing place that belonged to Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁶ David saw the Lord 's angel in the air, holding a sword over Jerusalem. He and the leaders of Israel, who were all wearing sackcloth, bowed with their faces to the ground,

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
Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the Lord came to her

Genesis 19:27
That same morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood and spoken with the Lord .

Genesis 21:6
and Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Now everyone will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:7
Who would have dared to tell Abraham that someday I would have a child? But in his old age, I have given him a son."

Genesis 21:23
Now I want you to promise in the name of God that you will always be loyal to me and my descendants, just as I have always been loyal to you in this land where you have lived as a foreigner."

Genesis 21:25
One day, Abraham told Abimelech, "Some of your servants have taken over one of my wells."

Genesis 21:31
So they called the place Beersheba, because they made a treaty there.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the eternal Lord God.

Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.

Genesis 22:19
Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".