2 Samuel 24:14-16

The Voice

¹⁵ So the Eternal One sent a great plague that morning and for three days. It swept through Israel from Dan in the far north to Beersheba in the desert south, killing 70,000 people. ¹⁶ But when the heavenly messenger prepared to destroy Jerusalem, He relented; and He commanded the heavenly messenger who had brought the epidemic.

The heavenly messenger then paused beside the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite;