Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel. New Living Translation God was very displeased with the census, and he punished Israel for it. English Standard Version But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. Berean Standard Bible This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. King James Bible And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. New King James Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel. New American Standard Bible Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. NASB 1995 God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. NASB 1977 And God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel. Legacy Standard Bible And this thing was displeasing in the sight of God, so He struck Israel. Amplified Bible Now God was displeased with this act [of arrogance and pride], and He struck Israel. Christian Standard Bible This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel. Holman Christian Standard Bible This command was also evil in God’s sight, so He afflicted Israel. American Standard Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. Contemporary English Version David's order to count the people made God angry, and he punished Israel. English Revised Version And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. GOD'S WORD® Translation God considered the census to be sinful, so he struck Israel [with a plague]. Good News Translation God was displeased with what had been done, so he punished Israel. International Standard Version God considered this behavior to be evil, so he attacked Israel. Majority Standard Bible This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. NET Bible God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel. New Heart English Bible God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. Webster's Bible Translation And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel. World English Bible God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He strikes Israel, Young's Literal Translation And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel, Smith's Literal Translation And it will be evil in the eyes of God concerning this word, and he will strike Israel. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version Then God was displeased with what had been ordered, and so he struck Israel. New American Bible This command was evil in the sight of God, and he struck Israel. New Revised Standard Version But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd the LORD was displeased with this thing, because David had numbered Israel. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And the matter was evil in the eyes of LORD JEHOVAH, because David numbered Israel. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Israel. Brenton Septuagint Translation And there was evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he smote Israel. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Judgment for David's Sin7This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel. 8Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”… Cross References 2 Samuel 24:10 After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 2 Samuel 24:1 Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.” Numbers 14:11-12 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them? / I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” Exodus 32:31-32 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves. / Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.” 2 Samuel 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die. Psalm 51:1-4 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. ... 1 Kings 15:5 For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 1 Chronicles 21:8-10 Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” / And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer, / “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’” 1 Chronicles 27:23-24 David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky. / Joab 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. Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? / I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, James 4:17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin. Acts 13:22 After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’ Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 1 John 1:8-9 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. / If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Treasury of Scripture And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. he smote 1 Chronicles 21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. Joshua 7:1,5,13 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel… Joshua 22:16-26 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD? … Jump to Previous Account Command Displeased Evil Eyes Israel Pleased Punished Punishment Sight Smiteth Smote StruckJump to Next Account Command Displeased Evil Eyes Israel Pleased Punished Punishment Sight Smiteth Smote Struck1 Chronicles 21 1. David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people5. The number of the people being brought, David repents of it 9. David having three plagues proposed by God, chooses the pestilence 14. After the death of 70,000, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem 18. David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing floor; 26. where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favor by fire. 28. David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel This command The phrase "this command" refers to the directive given by King David to conduct a census of Israel. In the Hebrew context, the word for "command" (Hebrew: דָּבָר, davar) often implies a matter or thing that is spoken or decreed. In this instance, it highlights the authoritative nature of David's decision, which was not aligned with God's will. Historically, a census was not inherently wrong, but it was to be conducted under God's guidance, as it often implied reliance on human strength rather than divine provision. was also evil in the sight of God so He struck Israel (7) And God was displeased.--This verse also is not read in Samuel, which has instead, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." The peculiarities of expression in Samuel suggest textual corruption. The chronicler's verse is a sort of general heading, or anticipative summary, to the following narrative. The margin rightly renders the first clause (see Genesis 21 for the same unusual construction). Verse 7. - Smote Israel. These two words serve simply to summarize in the first instance what the compiler is about to rehearse at greater length. The parallel place shows, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." Some better power occasioned that smiting. Reflection brought to David's heart and conscience (1 Samuel 24:5), as often to those of others, restored vitality. The exact circumstances or providences, however, which roused into action the conscience of David are not stated. The second clause of our verse cannot refer to any preliminary smiting, but to the oncoming visitation of pestilence. It is noticeable, if only as a coincidence, that the eleventh verse of the parallel passage (2 Samuel 24:11) opens with a similarly ambiguously placed clause, "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the Prophet Gad," although this is explainable simply as our insufficient Authorized Version rendering. However, failing any external cause, the beginning of ver. 10 in this same parallel place may intimate the adequate account of all in the spontaneous stirring of David's conscience" the bitter thoughts of conscience born." In these two verses we suddenly come upon the name "God" instead of "the Lord," i.e. Jehovah.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Thisהַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that command הַדָּבָ֖ר (had·dā·ḇār) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause was also evil וַיֵּ֙רַע֙ (way·yê·ra‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad in the sight בְּעֵינֵ֣י (bə·‘ê·nê) Preposition-b | Noun - cdc Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative so He struck וַיַּ֖ךְ (way·yaḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5221: To strike Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Links 1 Chronicles 21:7 NIV1 Chronicles 21:7 NLT 1 Chronicles 21:7 ESV 1 Chronicles 21:7 NASB 1 Chronicles 21:7 KJV 1 Chronicles 21:7 BibleApps.com 1 Chronicles 21:7 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 21:7 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 21:7 French Bible 1 Chronicles 21:7 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Chronicles 21:7 God was displeased with this thing (1 Chron. 1Ch iCh i Ch 1 chr 1chr) |