And God was displeased with this thing; therefore 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.
- BSB This command was also evil in the sight of God; so 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 21:14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
- 2 Sam 11:27When 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 Yahweh.
- Josh 7:13“Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”
- Josh 7:5The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
- 2 Sam 24:1Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
- Josh 22:16–26“Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?
- 2 Sam 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
- 1 Kgs 15:5because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- Josh 7:1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
- 2 Sam 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
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