1 Chronicles 21:14
What does 1 Chronicles 21:14 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Chronicles 21:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
Context
v.13And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
v.14This passage
v.15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Numbers 25:9
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- 1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, andfifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
- 1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
- Exodus 12:30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- 2 Samuel 24:15
So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
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