1 Chronicles 21:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.”
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“So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Chronicles 21:14 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Numbers 16:46Moses 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.”
- Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
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