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1 Chronicles 21:14

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
1 Chronicles 21:14 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

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

    BBE

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

    DBY

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

    WEB

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

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

12Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

13And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

14So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15And God sent an angel unto 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 thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor 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 upon their faces.

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