King James Version with Apocrypha
"So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men."
— 1 Chronicles 21:14, King James Version with Apocrypha
“So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.”
“So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. ”
“So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.”
“So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.”
“So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.”
“So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.”
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee
Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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.
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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.
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.