1 Chronicles 21:14 “So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Isr…”

1 Chronicles 21:14

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

American Standard Version

So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Geneva Bible 1599

So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,

Bible in Basic English

So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

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Cross references

“the Lord”

Numbers 16:46–49 2 Samuel 24:15

Numbers 16:46–49 · BSB

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

2 Samuel 24:15 · BSB

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.

“seventy”

Exodus 12:30 Numbers 25:9 1 Samuel 6:19 2 Kings 19:35

Exodus 12:30 · BSB

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Numbers 25:9 · BSB

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

1 Samuel 6:19 · BSB

But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

2 Kings 19:35 · BSB

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Also

1 Chronicles 27:24

1 Chronicles 27:24 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

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.

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