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1 Chronicles 21:7

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And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
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  1. 1 Chronicles 21:14Rank 1 from verse 7
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    14¶ So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

  2. 1 Kings 15:5Rank 2 from verse 7
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    5Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  3. 2 Samuel 11:27Rank 3 from verse 7
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    27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

  4. 2 Samuel 21:1Rank 4 from verse 7
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    1THEN there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

  5. 2 Samuel 21:14Rank 5 from verse 7
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    14And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

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1 Chronicles 21:7

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displeased

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of displease, meaning to give offense, cause displeasure, or make angry.

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COMBINED MEANING

smote

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1. Struck or dealt a blow to a person or thing with a hand, weapon, instrument, object, or force. 2. Attacked, defeated, slew, destroyed, or devastated a person, army, city, people, or land. 3. Afflicted, injured, or visited with disease, plague, blindness, calamity, or judgment. 4. Of the heart, convicted, troubled, or reproved inwardly.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

7And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

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8And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

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