2 Samuel 24:15

“So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, etc.] 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 began, and lasted to the time set for it, the three days, or at least unto the beginning of the third, when reaching Jerusalem, the Lord repented of it, and stayed his hand; though many think a much shorter time is intended; some think it lasted no more than half a day, if so much; some say but three hours f421; the Septuagint version,…”

“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.”

“The time appointed - Perhaps “the time of the assembly,” meaning the time of the evening sacrifice, at three o’clock, when the people assembled for prayer, more commonly described as “the time of the evening oblation” Daniel 9:21; 1Ki 18:29, 1 Kings 18:36; Acts 3:1; Luke 1:10. Seventy thousand - It is the most destructive plague recorded as having fallen upon the Israelites. In the plague that followed the rebellion of Korah there died 14,700 Numbers 16:49; in the plague, on account of Baal-Peor, 24,000 Numbers 25:9; 1 Corinthians 10:8. return to 'Top of Page'”

“the Lord: Num 16:46-49, Num 25:9; Sa1 6:19; Ch1 21:14, Ch1 27:4; Mat 24:7; Rev 6:8 from Dan: Sa2 24:2 seventy thousand men: Isa 37:36 2 Kings (2 Samuel) 24:16”