Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Israel14So 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. Jump to Previous Causing Dead Death Disease Fall Fell Israel Pestilence Plague Seventy ThousandJump to Next Causing Dead Death Disease Fall Fell Israel Pestilence Plague Seventy Thousand1 Chronicles 21 1. David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people5. 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 LORDיְהוָ֛ה (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 Links 1 Chronicles 21:14 NIV1 Chronicles 21:14 NLT 1 Chronicles 21:14 ESV 1 Chronicles 21:14 NASB 1 Chronicles 21:14 KJV 1 Chronicles 21:14 BibleApps.com 1 Chronicles 21:14 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 21:14 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 21:14 French Bible 1 Chronicles 21:14 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Chronicles 21:14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel (1 Chron. 1Ch iCh i Ch 1 chr 1chr) |