Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel. New Living Translation God was very displeased with the census, and he punished Israel for it. English Standard Version But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. Berean Standard Bible This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. King James Bible And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. New King James Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel. New American Standard Bible Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. NASB 1995 God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. NASB 1977 And God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. Legacy Standard Bible And this thing was displeasing in the sight of God, so He struck Israel. Amplified Bible Now God was displeased with this act [of arrogance and pride], and He struck Israel. Christian Standard Bible This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel. Holman Christian Standard Bible This command was also evil in God’s sight, so He afflicted Israel. American Standard Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the matter was evil in the eyes of LORD JEHOVAH, because David numbered Israel. Brenton Septuagint Translation And there was evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he smote Israel. Contemporary English Version David's order to count the people made God angry, and he punished Israel. Douay-Rheims Bible And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel. English Revised Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. GOD'S WORD® Translation God considered the census to be sinful, so he struck Israel [with a plague]. Good News Translation God was displeased with what had been done, so he punished Israel. International Standard Version God considered this behavior to be evil, so he attacked Israel. JPS Tanakh 1917 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Israel. Literal Standard Version And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He strikes Israel, Majority Standard Bible This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. New American Bible This command was evil in the sight of God, and he struck Israel. NET Bible God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel. New Revised Standard Version But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. New Heart English Bible God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. Webster's Bible Translation And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel. World English Bible God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. Young's Literal Translation And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Judgment for David's Sin7This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. 8Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”… Cross References 2 Samuel 15:26 But if He should say, 'I do not delight in you,' then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him." 1 Chronicles 21:6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king's command was detestable to him. 1 Chronicles 21:8 Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly." Treasury of Scripture And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. he smote 1 Chronicles 21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. Joshua 7:1,5,13 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel… Joshua 22:16-26 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD? … Jump to Previous Account Command Displeased Evil Eyes Israel Pleased Punished Punishment Sight Smiteth Smote StruckJump to Next Account Command Displeased Evil Eyes Israel Pleased Punished Punishment Sight Smiteth Smote Struck1 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 (7-13) The Divine wrath, declared by Gad the seer. (7) And God was displeased.--This verse also is not read in Samuel, which has instead, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." The peculiarities of expression in Samuel suggest textual corruption. The chronicler's verse is a sort of general heading, or anticipative summary, to the following narrative. The margin rightly renders the first clause (see Genesis 21 for the same unusual construction). Verse 7. - Smote Israel. These two words serve simply to summarize in the first instance what the compiler is about to rehearse at greater length. The parallel place shows, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." Some better power occasioned that smiting. Reflection brought to David's heart and conscience (1 Samuel 24:5), as often to those of others, restored vitality. The exact circumstances or providences, however, which roused into action the conscience of David are not stated. The second clause of our verse cannot refer to any preliminary smiting, but to the oncoming visitation of pestilence. It is noticeable, if only as a coincidence, that the eleventh verse of the parallel passage (2 Samuel 24:11) opens with a similarly ambiguously placed clause, "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the Prophet Gad," although this is explainable simply as our insufficient Authorized Version rendering. However, failing any external cause, the beginning of ver. 10 in this same parallel place may intimate the adequate account of all in the spontaneous stirring of David's conscience" the bitter thoughts of conscience born." In these two verses we suddenly come upon the name "God" instead of "the Lord," i.e. Jehovah.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Thisהַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that command הַדָּבָ֖ר (had·dā·ḇār) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause was also evil וַיֵּ֙רַע֙ (way·yê·ra‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad in the sight בְּעֵינֵ֣י (bə·‘ê·nê) Preposition-b | Noun - cdc Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative so He struck וַיַּ֖ךְ (way·yaḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5221: To strike Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Links 1 Chronicles 21:7 NIV1 Chronicles 21:7 NLT 1 Chronicles 21:7 ESV 1 Chronicles 21:7 NASB 1 Chronicles 21:7 KJV 1 Chronicles 21:7 BibleApps.com 1 Chronicles 21:7 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 21:7 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 21:7 French Bible 1 Chronicles 21:7 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Chronicles 21:7 God was displeased with this thing (1 Chron. 1Ch iCh i Ch 1 chr 1chr) |