THEOSIS1 Chronicles 21:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
וַיִּתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה דֶּ֖בֶר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּפֹּל֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף אִֽישׁ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 6:19But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
- Num 25:9And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
- 1 Chr 27:24Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles of king David.
- Num 16:46Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.
- Num 16:49And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.
- Ex 12:30And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.
- 2 Sam 24:15And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.