1 Chronicles 21:14
◄  1 Chronicles 21:14  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and 70,000 people died as a result.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the LORD sent a pestilence to Israel, and 70,000 men died in Israel.

NET Bible (©2006)
So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

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

American Standard Version
So Jehovah sent a 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah 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.

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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-30 David's numbering the people. - No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his acceptance of David's offerings on this altar. Thus Christ was made sin, and a curse for us; it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through him, God might be to us, not a consuming Fire, but a reconciled God. It is good to continue attendance on those ordinances in which we have experienced the tokens of God's presence, and have found that he is with us of a truth. Here God graciously met me, therefore I will still expect to meet him.

Pulpit Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14, 15. So the Lord … sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it—The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.

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David's Repentance Spares Jerusalem
14So the LORD sent pestilence on Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. …

2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, 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. God's wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book of the annals of King David.