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1 Chronicles 21:7 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 21 · verse 7
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.1 Chronicles 21:7 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 21:7 in context
5And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- displeasedyâraʻproperly, to be broken upH3415 →
- displeasedʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- smotenâkâhto strikeH5221 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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David is here under the rod for numbering the people, that rod of correction which drives out the foolishness that is bound up in the heart, the foolishness of pride. Let us briefly observe, I. How he was corrected. If God's dearest children do amiss, they must expect to smart for it. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-17