2 Samuel 24:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The lord

Revelation 6:8

Seventy thousand men

Isaiah 37:36

General references

Deuteronomy 28:21

Bible References

The lord

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord; the plague has begun!”

Nevertheless, those [Israelites] who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

The Lord struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

Dodai the Ahohite and his division was in charge of the division for the second month, Mikloth was the chief officer; and in his division were 24,000.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

So I looked, and behold, an ashen (pale greenish gray) horse [like a corpse, representing death and pestilence]; and its rider’s name was Death; and Hades (the realm of the dead) was following with him. They were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Seventy thousand men

And the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.

General references

The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.