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So the LORD 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.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. And. Septuagint insert, “And David chose death, (the pestilence, as they usually render it; Salien). And it was the time of the wheat-harvest. And the Lord gave death in Israel, from morning till dinner-time.” Bible.—Appointed, for three days; though before the end of the last, God took pity on the people, ver 16. Calmet.—Bochart thinks the pestilence ceased to rage at some hour of the first day. Syr. and Arab. “till the sixth hour.”
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