1 Chronicles 21:7
And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
In Context
6But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
Cross References
Joshua 7:1But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in what was set apart. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from what was set apart, and the anger of LORD was kindled against the
Joshua 7:13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, There is what has been set apart in the midst of thee, O Israel. Thou cannot stand before thine enemies until ye take aw
2 Samuel 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased LORD.
2 Samuel 21:14And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulcher of Kish his father. And they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was appealed for the land.
2 Samuel 24:10And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foo
1 Chronicles 21:14So LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:2-7
The Giants Subdued. ( b. c. 1017.) 1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. 3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people a hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless… Read the whole commentary →