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A Plague on Israel

1 Chronicles 21:14

In 11 translations

BSB
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
KJV
¶ So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
WEB
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
ASV
So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
LSV
And YHWH gives a pestilence in Israel, and there falls from Israel seventy thousand men,
YLT
And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,
DBY
And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
DRC
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
GNV
So the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seuentie thousande men.
JPS
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
LXXE
So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה דֶּ֖בֶר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּפֹּל֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף אִֽישׁ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἔδωκεν Κύριος θάνατον ἐν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἔπεσον ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδες ἀνδρῶν.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:19But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
  • Exodus 12:30During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
  • 1 Chronicles 27:24Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.
  • 2 Kings 19:35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
  • Numbers 16:46–49Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.” So…
  • Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
  • 2 Samuel 24:15So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

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