1 Chronicles 21:7

New International Reader's Version

It was also evil in the sight of God. So he punished Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27

When her time of sadness was over, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife. And she had a son by him. But the Lord wasn’t pleased with what David had done.

2 Samuel 15:26

But suppose he says, ‘I am not pleased with you.’ Then I accept that. Let him do to me what he thinks is best.”

2 Samuel 21:1

For three years in a row there wasn’t enough food in the land. That was while David was king. So David asked the Lord why he wasn’t blessing his people. The Lord said, “It is because Saul and his family committed murder. He put the people of Gibeon to death.”

2 Samuel 21:14

The bones of Saul and his son Jonathan were buried in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. The tomb was at Zela in the territory of Benjamin. Everything the king commanded was done. After that, God answered prayer and blessed the land.

2 Samuel 24:1

The Lord was very angry with Israel. He stirred up David against them. He said, “Go! Count the men of Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24:10

David felt sorry that he had counted the fighting men. So he said to the Lord, “I committed a great sin when I counted Judah and Israel’s men. Lord, I beg you to take away my guilt. I’ve done a very foolish thing.”

1 Kings 15:5

David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord. He had kept all the Lord’s commands. He had obeyed them all the days of his life. But he hadn’t obeyed the Lord in the case of Uriah, the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 21:14

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel. And 70,000 Israelites died.

1 Chronicles 21:6

But Joab didn’t include the tribes of Levi and Benjamin in the total number. The king’s command was sickening to Joab.

1 Chronicles 21:8

Then David said to God, “I committed a great sin when I counted Israel’s men. I beg you to take away my guilt. I’ve done a very foolish thing.”

Joshua 7:1

But the Israelites weren’t faithful to the Lord. They didn’t destroy what had been set apart to him. So they did not do what they had been told to do. Achan had taken some of those things. So the Lord became very angry with Israel. Achan was the son of Karmi. Karmi was the son of Zimri. And Zimri was the son of Zerah. Achan and all his relatives were from the tribe of Judah.

Joshua 7:13

“Go and set the people apart. Tell them, ‘Make yourselves pure. Get ready for tomorrow. Here is what the Lord, the God of Israel, wants you to do. He says, “People of Israel, you have kept some of the things that had been set apart to me to be destroyed. You can’t stand up against your enemies until you get rid of those things.”

Joshua 7:5

They chased the Israelites from the city gate all the way to Shebarim. They killed about 36 of them on the way down. So the Israelites were terrified.