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.
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel,.... Upon the land of Israel, the people of the land, directly employing an angel to go through the coasts of it, and empowering him to inflict a pestilential disease: from the morning even to the time appointed: from the morning the prophet Gad came to David with a message from the Lord; that very morning the plague...
HIS INTERCESSION TO GOD; THE PLAGUE CEASES. (Sa2 24:15-25) from the morning--rather that morning when Gad came [Sa2 24:18], till the end of the three days. there died of the people . . . seventy thousand men--Thus was the pride of the vainglorious monarch, confiding in the number of his population, deeply humbled.
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. (h) From the one side of the country to the other.