1 Chronicles 21:14

floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favour by fire, and stays the plague.
Overview - 1 Chronicles 21
David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
The number of the people being brought, David repents of it.
David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence.
14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
18 David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing-
28 David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel.
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1 Chronicles 21:14  (King James Version)
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
 


the Lord
Numbers 16:46-49 ; 2 Samuel 24:15

seventy
Exodus 12:30 ; Numbers 25:9 ; 1 Samuel 6:19 ; 2 Kings 19:35