14 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
14 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
14 So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.
14 So God unleashed an epidemic in Israel - 70,000 Israelites died.
14 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
14 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and 70,000 people died as a result.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 21:14
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David's numbering the people.
No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his acceptance of David's offerings on this altar. Thus Christ was made sin, and a curse for us; it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through him, God might be to us, not a consuming Fire, but a reconciled God. It is good to continue attendance on those ordinances in which we have experienced the tokens of God's presence, and have found that he is with us of a truth. Here God graciously met me, therefore I will still expect to meet him.