Devine Scripture

1 Chronicles 21:14

1 Chronicles chapter 21 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So 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.