1 Chronicles 21:14

14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell.

1 Chronicles 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:14

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

1 Chronicles 21:14 In-Context

12 whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to my sender."

13 Then David said to Gad, "{I am very troubled}. Let me into the hand of Yahweh, for his compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of a man."

14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell.

15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as [he was about] to destroy [it], Yahweh saw and was grieved on account of the calamity. Then he said to the angel, the destroyer, "[It is] enough; slacken your hand." And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.