1 Chronicles 21 · Verse 14

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

1 Chronicles 21:14 in other translations

BSBSo the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
WEBSo the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
ASVSo Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
YLTAnd Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
DARBYAnd Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
BBESo the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
WebsterSo the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

What does 1 Chronicles 21:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 21:14-15
14-15. So the Lord ... sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it--The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

1 Chronicles 21:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּתֵּ֧ןvai.yi.Tenand he putH5414
יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3068
דֶּ֖בֶרDe.vera pestilenceH1698
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לbe.Yis.ra.'Elon IsraelH3478
וַיִּפֹּל֙vai.yi.Poland it fellH5307
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔לmi.Yis.ra.'Elof IsraelH3478
שִׁבְעִ֥יםshiv.'ImseventyH7657
אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505
אִֽישׁ\׃'Ishperson[s]H376

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Chronicles 21:14

  • Numbers 16:46-49

    And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

  • 2 Kings 19:35

    And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

  • 2 Samuel 24:15

    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.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:24

    Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

  • Numbers 25:9

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

  • 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.

  • 1 Samuel 6:19

    And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the Lord.
Nu 16:46-49; 2Sa 24:15
seventy.
Ex 12:30; Nu 25:9; 1Sa 6:19; 2Ki 19:35

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Context

  • 1 Chronicles 21:13

    And 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:14

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

  • 1 Chronicles 21:15

    And 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.

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1 Chronicles 21:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Así Jehová dió pestilencia en Israel, y cayeron de Israel setenta mil hombres.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et l’ Éternel envoya la peste en Israël; et il tomba d’Israël 70 000 hommes.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Jehova sandte eine Pest unter Israel; und es fielen von Israel 70000 Mann.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Misit ergo Dominus pestilentiam in Israël: et ceciderunt de Israël septuaginta millia virorum.