'Punishment' in the Bible

And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.

For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.