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14 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelite men died. 15 Then God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when the angel was about to destroy the city,[a] the Lord looked, relented concerning the destruction,(A) and said to the angel who was destroying the people, ‘Enough, withdraw your hand now! ’ The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing-floor of Ornan[b] the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:15 Lit but as he was destroying
  2. 21:15–28 = Araunah in 2Sm 24:16–24