1 Chronicles 21:14

Therfor the Lord sente pestilence in to Israel, and seuenti thousynde of men felden doun of Israel.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

In Context

13And Dauid seide to Gad, Angwischis oppresse me on ech part, but it is betere to me, that Y falle in to the hondis of the Lord, for his merciful doynges ben manye, than in to the hondis of men.

15Also he sente an aungel in to Jerusalem, that he schulde smyte it; and whanne it was smytun, the Lord siy, and hadde merci on the greetnesse of yuel; and comaundide to the aungel that smoot, It suffisith, now thin hond ceesse. Forsothe the aungel of the Lord stood bisidis the cornfloor of Ornam Jebusey.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:30And Farao roos in the nyyt, and alle hise seruauntis, and al Egipt; and a greet cry was maad in Egipt, for noon hows was, in which a deed man lay not.

Numbers 25:9and foure and twenti thousand of men weren slayn.

1 Chronicles 27:24Joab, the sone of Saruye, bigan for to noumbre, and he fillide not; for ire fel on Israel for this thing, and therfor the noumbre of hem, that weren noumbrid, was not teld in to the bookis of cronyclis of kyng Dauid.

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