This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
- KJV And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
- NKJV And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel.
- NASB Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.
- NLT God was very displeased with the census, and he punished Israel for it.
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Quick answer
God is displeased and strikes Israel. It shows the Lord's judgment falling because of the census.
Overview
The Lord, displeased with the census, brings judgment on Israel. The narrative affirms that sin, even a king's, has real consequences for the people. Yet this judgment becomes the occasion for repentance, mercy, and the revealing of the place where atonement and the temple will be established.
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- 1 Chr 21:14So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
- 2 Sam 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Josh 7:13Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
- Josh 7:5And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
- 2 Sam 24:1Again 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.”
- Josh 22:16–26“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?
- 2 Sam 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 1 Kgs 15:5For 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.
- Josh 7:1The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.
- 2 Sam 21:14And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
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