1 Chronicles 21:14

English Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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.

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 there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel; seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

⁷ But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. ⁸ And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly." ⁹ And the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, ¹⁰ "Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord , Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'" ¹¹ So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord , ‘Choose what you will: ¹² either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord , pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me." ¹³ Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the Lord , for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man." ¹⁴ So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell. ¹⁵ And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon 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
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 19:27
And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord .

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."

Genesis 21:7
And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."

Genesis 21:25
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord , the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".