2 Samuel 24 · Verse 15

2 Samuel 24:15

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.
2 Samuel 24:15, King James Version

2 Samuel 24:15 in other translations

BSBSo 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.
WEBSo 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.
ASVSo 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.
YLTAnd 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,
DARBYAnd Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
BBESo David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.
WebsterSo 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.

What does 2 Samuel 24:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. from the morning--rather that morning when Gad came [2Sa 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 From the morning - to the time appointed - That is, from the morning of the day after David had made his election till the third day, according to the condition which God had proposed, and he had accepted: but it seems that the plague was terminated before the conclusion of the third day, for Jerusalem might have been destroyed, but it was not. Throughout the land, independently of the city, seventy thousand persons were slain! This was a terrible mortality in the space of less than three days.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 24:10-15

It is well, when a man has sinned, if he has a heart within to smite him for it. If we confess our sins, we may pray in faith that God would forgive them, and take away, by pardoning mercy, that sin which we cast away by sincere repentance. What we make the matter of our pride, it is just in God to take from us, or make bitter to us, and make it our punishment. This must be such a punishment as the people have a…

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2 Samuel 24:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּתֵּ֨ןvai.yi.Tenand he gaveH5414
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068
דֶּ֙בֶר֙de.verpestilenceH1698
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לbe.Yis.ra.'Elin IsraelH3478
מֵהַבֹּ֖קֶרme.ha.Bo.kerfrom the morningH1242
וְעַד\־ve.'ad-and untilH5704
עֵ֣ת'eta time ofH6256
מוֹעֵ֑דmo.'Edan appointed timeH4150
וַיָּ֣מָתvai.Ya.motand he diedH4191
מִן\־min-ofH4480
הָעָ֗םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
מִדָּן֙mi.Danfrom DanH1835
וְעַד\־ve.'ad-and toH5704
בְּאֵ֣רbe.'ErBeerH884
שֶׁ֔בַעShe.va'ShebaH884
שִׁבְעִ֥יםshiv.'ImseventyH7657
אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505
אִֽישׁ\׃'IshmanH376

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Samuel 24:15

  • 1 Chronicles 21:14

    So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:24

    Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

  • Numbers 25:9

    And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

  • Revelation 6:8

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

  • Isaiah 37:36

    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.

  • Matthew 24:7

    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

  • 1 Samuel 6:19

    And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:4

    And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.

  • Numbers 16:46-49

    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. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

  • 2 Samuel 24:2

    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 Beer–sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

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the Lord.
Nu 16:46-49; 25:9; 1Sa 6:19; 1Ch 21:14; 27:4; Mt 24:7; Re 6:8
from Dan.
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seventy thousand men.
Isa 37:36

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Context

  • 2 Samuel 24:14

    And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

  • 2 Samuel 24:15

    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.

  • 2 Samuel 24:16

    And when the angel stretched out his hand upon 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 thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

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2 Samuel 24:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y envió Jehová pestilencia á Israel desde la mañana hasta el tiempo señalado: y murieron del pueblo, desde Dan hasta Beer-seba, setenta mil hombres.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et l’ Éternel envoya la peste en Israël depuis le matin jusqu’au temps assigné; et il mourut du peuple, depuis Dan jusqu’à Beër-Shéba, 70 000 hommes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sandte Jehova eine Pest unter Israel, vom Morgen an bis zur bestimmten Zeit; und es starben von dem Volke, von Dan bis Beerseba, 70000 Mann.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Immisitque Dominus pestilentiam in Israël, de mane usque ad tempus constitutum, et mortui sunt ex populo a Dan usque ad Bersabee septuaginta millia virorum.