1 Chronicles 21:14 Meaning and Explanation
“So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.”
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What Does 1 Chronicles 21:14 Mean?
The judgment falls. The Lord sends the pestilence, and seventy thousand of Israel die. The number is vast, a sobering measure of what the king's sin set in motion across the nation he was meant to protect.
The text does not soften the cost. Sin is never merely private; a shepherd's failure wounds the flock. Yet even here the reader is meant to feel the urgency that drives David to intercede in the verses ahead. The weight of judgment prepares the heart to long for the mercy that is coming, and to grieve that leadership unloosed such sorrow.
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What does 1 Chronicles 21:14 mean?
The LORD sends a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men die.