1 Chronicles 21:7

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

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  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the Israelites acted unfaithfully with the things designated for destruction. Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things, and the anger of the Lord burned against the Israelites.
  • Josh 7:5 : 5 The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them. They chased them from the city gate as far as the quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this, the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.’
  • Josh 22:16-26 : 16 'This is what the entire assembly of the LORD says: What is this unfaithful act you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away from following the LORD today and building for yourselves an altar, rebelling against the LORD now? 17 Was the sin of Peor not enough for us, even though we have not yet cleansed ourselves of that sin to this very day, and a plague fell upon the congregation of the LORD? 18 And now you are turning away from the LORD today! If you rebel against the LORD today, tomorrow He will be angry with the entire assembly of Israel. 19 If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then come over to the land the LORD possesses, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and settle among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of the LORD our God. 20 Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a treachery regarding the devoted things, and wrath fell upon the entire assembly of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.' 21 Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of Israel: 22 The Mighty One, God, the LORD—the Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows, and let Israel also know! If it was in rebellion or treachery against the LORD, do not spare us today. 23 If we have built an altar to turn away from following the LORD, or to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings, or to offer fellowship sacrifices on it, may the LORD Himself call us to account. 24 We did this because we feared that someday your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?’ 25 The LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you—you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the LORD.’ So your descendants might cause ours to stop worshiping the LORD. 26 That is why we said, ‘Let us build an altar—not for burnt offerings or sacrifices,
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 After the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 During the days of David, there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, and the Lord said, "It concerns Saul and his house, who are guilty of bloodshed, for he killed the Gibeonites."
  • 2 Sam 21:14 : 14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Saul's father Kish. They did everything the king commanded. After that, God responded to the prayers for the land.
  • 2 Sam 24:1 : 1 Again the Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He incited David against them, saying, "Go, count the people of Israel and Judah."
  • 1 Kgs 15:5 : 5 For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 1 Chr 21:14 : 14 So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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  • 1 Chr 21:6
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    6But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.

  • Ps 78:59
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    59When God heard this, He became furious and greatly rejected Israel.

  • Ps 78:31
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    31Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:8
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    8Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg You, take away the guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

  • 1 Chr 21:17
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    17David said to God, "Was it not I who gave the command to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? LORD my God, let Your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on Your people."

  • 2 Sam 24:10
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    10David's heart was troubled after he had numbered the people. He said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, please take away the guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

  • Ps 78:21
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    21Therefore, when the Lord heard this, He became furious; a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger rose against Israel.

  • 2 Sam 24:1
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    1Again the Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He incited David against them, saying, "Go, count the people of Israel and Judah."

  • 1 Chr 21:14-15
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    14So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

    15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as the angel was about to destroy, the LORD saw, relented of the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "Enough! Withdraw your hand now." The angel of the LORD was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Chr 27:24
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    24Joab son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. Wrath came on Israel because of this census, and the number was not recorded in the chronicles of King David.

  • Judg 2:20
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    20Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • 2 Kgs 3:27
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    27Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a burnt sacrifice on the city wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, so they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

  • Gen 38:10
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    10What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight, so the LORD put him to death also.

  • 1 Chr 13:10-11
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    10The anger of the LORD burned against Uzza, and He struck him down because he had reached out to the ark. Uzza died there in the presence of God.

    11David was angry because the LORD had burst out against Uzza, so he named that place Perez-Uzza, as it is called to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 17:20-21
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    20Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.

    21For when Israel was torn from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and led them into great sin.

  • 2 Sam 6:7-8
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    7The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence. He died there beside the ark of God.

    8David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah, and that place was called Perez Uzzah, as it is to this day.

  • Num 25:3
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    3Israel yoked itself to Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel.

  • Isa 57:17
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    17Because of their sinful greed, I was angry; I struck them and turned away in anger, yet they continued in their willful ways.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7There, the army of Israel was defeated by David's servants, and the casualties were heavy that day—twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 13:34
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    34This response became a sin to the house of Jeroboam, leading to its downfall and destruction from the face of the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 17:18
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    18So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

  • 1 Chr 21:4
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    4Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab went out and traveled throughout all Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 24:17
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    17When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, "I alone have sinned; I, the shepherd, have acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand fall upon me and my family."

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba.

  • Judg 10:7
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    7So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites.

  • Josh 7:11
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    11Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, and they have put them with their own possessions.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15-16
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    15The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

    16He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam committed and made Israel commit.

  • 1 Kgs 20:43
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    43Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

  • Judg 10:16
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    16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

  • Deut 29:27
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    27In His anger and great wrath, the LORD uprooted them from their land and cast them into another land, as it is today.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
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    14So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a devastating plague.

  • Judg 21:6
    70%

    6The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'

  • 1 Sam 6:19
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    19But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had inflicted them with a great blow.

  • Isa 27:7
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    7Has the LORD struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their slayers were killed?

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
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    26He acted in the most detestable way by following idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
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    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

  • 1 Chr 21:1-2
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    1Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

    2So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, "Go and count the people of Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and report back to me so that I may know their number."

  • 1 Chr 10:14
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    14He did not seek guidance from the LORD, so the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David, son of Jesse.

  • 2 Sam 24:4
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    4Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed over Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

  • Josh 22:20
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    20Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a treachery regarding the devoted things, and wrath fell upon the entire assembly of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.'

  • Judg 21:15
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    15The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.