2 Samuel 24:15

Overview - 2 Samuel 24
David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
The captains, in nine months and twenty days, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men.
10 David repents, and having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the three days' pestilence.
15 After the death of three score and ten thousand, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
18 David, by God's direction, purchases Araunah's threshing floor; where having sacrificed, the plague stays.
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2 Samuel 24:15  (King James Version)
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.
 


the Lord
Numbers 16:46-49 ; 25:9 1 Samuel 6:19 ; 1 Chronicles 21:14 ; 27:4 Matthew 24:7 ; Revelation 6:8

from Dan
24:2

seventy thousand men
Isaiah 37:36