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A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south. <a href="/esv/2_samuel/24.htm">English Standard Version</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men. <a href="/bsb/2_samuel/24.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/kjv/2_samuel/24.htm">King James Bible</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/nkjv/2_samuel/24.htm">New King James Version</a> So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. <a href="/nasb_/2_samuel/24.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/nasb/2_samuel/24.htm">NASB 1995</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/nasb77/2_samuel/24.htm">NASB 1977 </a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/lsb/2_samuel/24.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> So Yahweh sent a pestilence against Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and 70,000 men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/amp/2_samuel/24.htm">Amplified Bible</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence (plague) [lasting three days] upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/csb/2_samuel/24.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men died. <a href="/hcsb/2_samuel/24.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died. <a href="/asv/2_samuel/24.htm">American Standard Version</a> So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/erv/2_samuel/24.htm">English Revised Version</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/gwt/2_samuel/24.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> So the LORD sent a plague among the Israelites from that morning until the time he had chosen. Of the people from Dan to Beersheba, 70,000 died. <a href="/gnt/2_samuel/24.htm">Good News Translation</a> So the LORD sent an epidemic on Israel, which lasted from that morning until the time that he had chosen. From one end of the country to the other seventy thousand Israelites died. <a href="/isv/2_samuel/24.htm">International Standard Version</a> That very morning, the LORD sent a pestilence to Israel until the conclusion of the time designated, and 70,000 men died from Dan to Beer-sheba. <a href="/msb/2_samuel/24.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. <a href="/net/2_samuel/24.htm">NET Bible</a> So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba. <a href="/nheb/2_samuel/24.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and the destruction began among the people. And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/wbt/2_samuel/24.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/web/2_samuel/24.htm">World English Bible</a> So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_samuel/24.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And YHWH gives a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed, and there dies of the people, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, seventy thousand men, <a href="/ylt/2_samuel/24.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And Jehovah giveth a pestilence on Israel from the morning even unto the time appointed, and there die of the people, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, seventy thousand men, <a href="/slt/2_samuel/24.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And Jehovah will give death in Israel from the morning and even to the time of the appointment; and from the people will die from Dan and even to the Well of the Oath, seventy thousand men.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_samuel/24.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men. <a href="/cpdv/2_samuel/24.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people, from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men. <a href="/nabre/2_samuel/24.htm">New American Bible</a> Thus David chose the plague. At the time of the wheat harvest it broke out among the people. The LORD sent plague over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand of the people died. <a href="/nrsvce/2_samuel/24.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from that morning until the appointed time; and seventy thousand of the people died, from Dan to Beer-sheba.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_samuel/24.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the evening; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/hpbt/2_samuel/24.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And LORD JEHOVAH gave a plague in Israel from morning and until the sixth hour, and seventy thousand warriors died from Dan and unto Bar Sheba<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_samuel/24.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. <a href="/sep/2_samuel/24.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> So David chose for himself the mortality: and they were the days of wheat-harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men. <a href="/parallel/2_samuel/24-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_0ajZHUzMKw?start=7602" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_samuel/24.htm">A Plague on Israel</a> 15<a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">So the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: way·yit·tên (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">sent</a> <a href="/hebrew/1698.htm" title="1698: de·ḇer (N-ms) -- Pestilence. From dabar; a pestilence.">a plague</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: bə·yiś·rā·’êl (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">upon Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/1242.htm" title="1242: mê·hab·bō·qer (Prep-m, Art:: N-ms) -- Morn- ing. From baqar; properly, dawn; generally, morning.">from that morning</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: wə·‘aḏ- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/4150.htm" title="4150: mō·w·‘êḏ (N-ms) -- Appointed time, place, or meeting. ">the appointed</a> <a href="/hebrew/6256.htm" title="6256: ‘êṯ (N-csc) -- Time. From ad; time, especially now, when, etc.">time,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">and seventy</a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: ’e·lep̄ (Number-ms) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand.">thousand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: hā·‘ām (Art:: N-ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">of the people</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/1835.htm" title="1835: mid·dān (Prep-m:: N-proper-ms) -- Judge, a son of Jacob, also his desc. and their territory, also a place in N. Isr. ">Dan</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: wə·‘aḏ- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/884.htm" title="884: bə·’êr (Prep) -- Well of seven, a place in the Negev. From 'er and sheba'; well of an oath; Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine."></a> <a href="/hebrew/884.htm" title="884: še·ḇa‘ (N-proper-fs) -- Well of seven, a place in the Negev. From 'er and sheba'; well of an oath; Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine.">Beersheba</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: way·yā·māṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">died.</a> 16But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-14.htm">1 Chronicles 21:14</a> So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. <a href="/exodus/12-29.htm">Exodus 12:29</a> Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock. <a href="/numbers/16-46.htm">Numbers 16:46-49</a> Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.” / So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people. / He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted. ... <a href="/2_samuel/21-1.htm">2 Samuel 21:1</a> During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.” <a href="/1_chronicles/21-12.htm">1 Chronicles 21:12</a> between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.” <a href="/deuteronomy/28-21.htm">Deuteronomy 28:21</a> The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. <a href="/ezekiel/14-19.htm">Ezekiel 14:19-21</a> Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast, / then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves. / For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast? <a href="/revelation/6-8.htm">Revelation 6:8</a> Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth. <a href="/matthew/24-7.htm">Matthew 24:7</a> Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. <a href="/jeremiah/21-6.htm">Jeremiah 21:6-7</a> I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’ / ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’ <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Leviticus 26:25</a> And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. <a href="/amos/4-10.htm">Amos 4:10</a> “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm">1 Samuel 6:19</a> But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter. <a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm">2 Kings 19:35</a> And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! <a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm">Isaiah 37:36</a> Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.the Lord<a href="/numbers/16-46.htm">Numbers 16:46-49</a> And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun… <a href="/numbers/25-9.htm">Numbers 25:9</a> And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.<a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm">1 Samuel 6:19</a> And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.from Dan<a href="/2_samuel/24-2.htm">2 Samuel 24:2</a> For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.seventy thousand men<a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm">Isaiah 37:36</a> Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/23-23.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-7.htm">Beersheba</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-7.htm">Beer-Sheba</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-18.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-6.htm">Dan</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-14.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-21.htm">Death</a> <a href="/numbers/1-17.htm">Designated</a> <a href="/2_samuel/20-10.htm">Died</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-38.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-8.htm">End</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-2.htm">Far</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-13.htm">Grain-Cutting</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-9.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-11.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-13.htm">Pestilence</a> <a href="/1_samuel/6-4.htm">Plague</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-51.htm">Selection</a> <a href="/1_samuel/6-19.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-9.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-20.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/1-35.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm">Beersheba</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm">Beer-Sheba</a> <a href="/1_kings/13-34.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm">Dan</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-17.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_kings/1-51.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/12-31.htm">Designated</a> <a href="/1_kings/1-52.htm">Died</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-25.htm">End</a> <a href="/1_kings/1-1.htm">Far</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-8.htm">Grain-Cutting</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-25.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-21.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">Pestilence</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm">Plague</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-8.htm">Selection</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-4.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/1_kings/1-6.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">2 Samuel 24</div>1. <a href="/2_samuel/24-1.htm">David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people</a> 5. <a href="/2_samuel/24-5.htm">The captains, in nine months and twenty days, gather 1,300,000 fighting men</a> 10. <a href="/2_samuel/24-10.htm">David repents, and having three plagues proposed by God, chooses pestilence</a> 15. <a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm">After the death of 70,000, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem</a> 18. <a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm">David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; </a> 25. <a href="/2_samuel/24-25.htm">and the plague stops</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/2_samuel/24.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div>So the LORD sent a plague The phrase "the LORD sent" underscores the sovereignty and authority of God over all creation. In Hebrew, the name for the LORD is "Yahweh," which signifies the covenantal relationship between God and Israel. The term "plague" (Hebrew: "deber") often denotes a divine judgment or punishment. This reflects the biblical theme that God is just and righteous, and His actions, even when severe, are meant to bring about repentance and restoration.upon Israel "Israel" refers to the united kingdom under David's rule, encompassing all twelve tribes. Historically, Israel was chosen by God to be a holy nation and a light to the Gentiles. This plague serves as a reminder of the nation's covenantal responsibilities and the consequences of disobedience. It also highlights the collective nature of sin and its impact on the community.from that morning until the appointed time The phrase "from that morning" indicates the immediacy and suddenness of the plague's onset. "Until the appointed time" suggests a predetermined period set by God, emphasizing His control over time and events. This reflects the biblical understanding that God’s judgments are measured and purposeful, not arbitrary.and seventy thousand men of the people died The number "seventy thousand" is significant, illustrating the severity of the judgment. In biblical numerology, the number seven often symbolizes completeness or perfection, suggesting the totality of the impact. The phrase "men of the people" indicates that the judgment affected a broad spectrum of society, reinforcing the idea that sin has widespread consequences.from Dan to Beersheba This phrase is a common biblical expression denoting the entire land of Israel, from its northernmost city, Dan, to its southernmost city, Beersheba. It signifies the comprehensive nature of the plague's impact across the nation. Historically, this expression underscores the unity and extent of the kingdom under David's reign, as well as the pervasive reach of divine judgment.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_samuel/24.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) The time appointed.--Much difficulty has been found with this expression; but, if the Hebrew can bear this meaning, it may be understood well enough of the time (somewhat less than three days, <a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm" title="And when the angel stretched out his hand on Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite.">2Samuel 24:16</a>), which God in His good pleasure determined. The Hebrew, however, probably means "time of assembly," which is generally understood to signify the time of the evening sacrifice; so the Chaldee understand it, and so also St. Jerome. This would reduce the time of the pestilence to a single day.When the angel.--The abruptness of the mention of "the angel" here is removed in <a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm" title="And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.">1Chronicles 21:15</a>, "And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying it, the Lord beheld, and he repented," &c.Threshing-place.--Better, threshing-floor, as the same word is translated in <a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm" title="And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, raise an altar to the LORD in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.">2Samuel 24:18</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/24-21.htm" title="And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.">2Samuel 24:21</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/24-24.htm" title="And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will surely buy it of you at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God of that which does cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.">2Samuel 24:24</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_samuel/24.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 15. - Even to the time appointed. This rendering, though very uncertain, is retained in the Revised Version. It would mean, of course, the end of the third day, as the pestilence was to last for that time. The objections to it are that there is no article in the Hebrew, so that literally it would be "unto a time appointed." Secondly, the pestilence did not continue unto the time appointed, but was mercifully stayed. And thirdly, these words are a literal translation, indeed, of the Vulgate, but a violation of its meaning. For Jerome, who made the translation, says, "'tempus constitutum' means the hour when the evening sacrifice was offered" ('Tradd. Hebrews in Duos Libres Regum'). The versions all agree that the pestilence lasted only a few hours. Thus the Syriac translates, "From morning until the sixth hour," i.e. noon. So too the Septuagint, "From morning until the midday meal." The Vulgate adds on thrice hours, as the evening sacrifice was at the ninth hour; and this is the meaning of the Chaldee Paraphrase: "From the time the daily sacrifice was slain until it was burnt." As the word moed used here means both a time or place appointed for a meeting, and also the meeting itself, the right translation probably is, "From the morning even to the time of assembly," or, as we should say, "the hour of service." Moed was the regular word for the time of the temple service, derived from the old name of the tabernacle, which was called "the tent of moed" (see <a href="/numbers/16-19.htm">Numbers 16:19</a>, etc.), rendered iu the Authorized Version, "the tabernacle of the congregation," and in the Revised Version, "the tent of meeting." The hour would thus be the ninth, or three o'clock in the afternoon. Seventy thousand men. This is a vast number to fall victims of the pestilence in so short a time, as even the most dangerous forms of sickness take some days for their development. But similarly the army of Sennacherib was cut off in a night (<a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm">Isaiah 37:36</a>); as were the firstborn in Egypt, whose visitation more nearly resembles the course of this pestilence; and the rapidity of the death blow, striking down so vast a multitude suddenly throughout all parts of the land, would be proof to every mind that the mortality was the Divine chastisement for national sin. It is possible, nevertheless, that the black death cloud, bringing with it the plague, may have been settling down upon the land previously, and have alarmed David, and brought him to repentance; and though no new cases occurred after the offering of his burnt offerings (ver. 25), yet it by no means follows that all cases of infection were miraculously cured. The malady may have run in them its normal course. It was Jerusalem that was saved from the blow, and, after the offering of the burnt offering, the pestilence smote down no more. <a href="/commentaries/2_samuel/24-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>So the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel sent וַיִּתֵּ֨ן (way·yit·tên) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set a plague דֶּ֙בֶר֙ (de·ḇer) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1698.htm">Strong's 1698: </a> A pestilence on Israel בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (bə·yiś·rā·’êl) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc from that morning מֵהַבֹּ֖קֶר (mê·hab·bō·qer) Preposition-m, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1242.htm">Strong's 1242: </a> Dawn, morning until וְעַד־ (wə·‘aḏ-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the appointed מוֹעֵ֑ד (mō·w·‘êḏ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4150.htm">Strong's 4150: </a> Appointed time, place, or meeting time, עֵ֣ת (‘êṯ) Noun - common singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6256.htm">Strong's 6256: </a> Time, now, when and of מִן־ (min-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> A part of, from, out of the people הָעָ֗ם (hā·‘ām) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock from Dan מִדָּן֙ (mid·dān) Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1835.htm">Strong's 1835: </a> Dan -- 'judge', a son of Jacob, also a place in Northern Israel to וְעַד־ (wə·‘aḏ-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while Beersheba, שֶׁ֔בַע (še·ḇa‘) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_884.htm">Strong's 884: </a> Beersheba -- 'well of seven', a place in the Negev seventy שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> Seventy (a cardinal number) thousand אֶ֖לֶף (’e·lep̄) Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_505.htm">Strong's 505: </a> A thousand men אִֽישׁ׃ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person died. וַיָּ֣מָת (way·yā·māṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> To die, to kill <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm">OT History: 2 Samuel 24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_samuel/24-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Samuel 24:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 24:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 24:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 24:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>