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1 Chronicles 21:13-15
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13 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”[a] 14 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

15 God sent an angel[b] to ravage[c] Jerusalem. As he was doing so,[d] the Lord watched[e] and relented from[f] his judgment.[g] He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough![h] Stop now!”[i]

Now the angel of the Lord was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan[j] the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:13 tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “destroy.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “while he was destroying.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “saw.”
  6. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Or “was grieved because of.”
  7. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
  8. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.
  9. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
  10. 1 Chronicles 21:15 tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (ʾaravnaʾ, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.
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