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1 Chronicles 21:7

in 1 Chronicles 21

This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

KJV

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 21

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

evil in the sight of God

on 1 Chronicles 21:7-8

The text calls the command “evil in the sight of God” before any sentence is announced, and adds “so He struck Israel”. David confesses, “I have sinned greatly”, in words close to those of 2 Samuel 24:10. He calls his act foolish, “for I have acted very foolishly”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The sad dilemma (or trilemma rather) he was brought to, when it was put to him to choose how he would be punished for this sin, and what rod he would be beaten with,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

God takes notice of, and is displeased with, the sins of his people; and no sin is more displeasing to him than pride of heart: nor is anything more humbling, and grieving, and mortifying to a gracious soul, than to see itself under God's displeasure.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֙רַע֙and it was displeasing

    vaiyera'H7489 →107 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַדָּבָ֖רthe matter

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וַיַּ֖ךְand he struck

    vaiyakhH5221 →499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:5

    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:8

      I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart,…

    • 2 Samuel 11:15–17

      In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”

    • 2 Chronicles 34:2

      And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • Through

    Joshua 7:5

    And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 2:9

      and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting…

    • Joshua 2:11

      When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

    • Leviticus 26:36

      As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 11:27

    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 12:9

      Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have…

    • Psalms 51:4–5

      Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.