1st Chronicles Chapter 21 verse 7 Holy Bible
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
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And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
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And God was displeased on account of this thing, and he smote Israel.
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And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
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And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.
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God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
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And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Smote Israel. These two words serve simply to summarize in the first instance what the compiler is about to rehearse at greater length. The parallel place shows, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." Some better power occasioned that smiting. Reflection brought to David's heart and conscience (1 Samuel 24:5), as often to those of others, restored vitality. The exact circumstances or providences, however, which roused into action the conscience of David are not stated. The second clause of our verse cannot refer to any preliminary smiting, but to the oncoming visitation of pestilence. It is noticeable, if only as a coincidence, that the eleventh verse of the parallel passage (2 Samuel 24:11) opens with a similarly ambiguously placed clause, "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the Prophet Gad," although this is explainable simply as our insufficient Authorized Version rendering. However, failing any external cause, the beginning of ver. 10 in this same parallel place may intimate the adequate account of all in the spontaneous stirring of David's conscience" the bitter thoughts of conscience born." In these two verses we suddenly come upon the name "God" instead of "the Lord," i.e. Jehovah.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7-13) The Divine wrath, declared by Gad the seer.(7) And God was displeased.--This verse also is not read in Samuel, which has instead, "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people." The peculiarities of expression in Samuel suggest textual corruption. The chronicler's verse is a sort of general heading, or anticipative summary, to the following narrative. The margin rightly renders the first clause (see Genesis 21 for the same unusual construction).
