Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 24:15

2 Samuel chapter 24 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

So the Lord 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

v.15This passage

v.16And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Samuel 24:2

    And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Numbers 25:9

    And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

  • Matthew 24:7

    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:14

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