SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:15
Y envió el SEÑOR pestilencia en Israel desde la mañana hasta el tiempo señalado; y murieron del pueblo, desde Dan hasta Beerseba, setenta mil hombres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 24:15
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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 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, until dinnertime; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, until the sixth hour of the day, which was noon; and so Kimchi says, some of their Rabbins interpret it of the half or middle of the day; the Targum is, “from the time the daily sacrifice was slain until it was burnt;” and it is the sense of several learned men that it was only from the morning until the time of the evening sacrifice, or evening prayer, about three o’clock in the afternoon, and so lasted about nine hours: and there died of the people, from Dan even to Beersheba, seventy thousand men ; so that there was a great diminution of the people in all places where they were numbered; and David’s sin may be read in the punishment of it; his heart was lifted up by the numbers of his people, and now it must be humbled by the lessening of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-15 - It is well, when a man has sinned, if he has a heart within to smit him for it. If we confess our sins, we may pray in faith that God woul forgive them, and take away, by pardoning mercy, that sin which we cas 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 ou punishment. This must be such a punishment as the people have a larg share in, for though it was David's sin that opened the sluice, the sins of the people all contributed to the flood. In this difficulty David chose a judgment which came immediately from God, whose mercie he knew to be very great, rather than from men, who would have triumphed in the miseries of Israel, and have been thereby hardened in their idolatry. He chose the pestilence; he and his family would be a much exposed to it as the poorest Israelite; and he would continue for a shorter time under the Divine rebuke, however severe it was. The rapid destruction by the pestilence shows how easily God can bring dow the proudest sinners, and how much we owe daily to the Divine patience.
Original Hebrew
ויתן 5414 יהוה 3068 דבר 1698 בישׂראל 3478 מהבקר 1242 ועד 5704 עת 6256 מועד 4150 וימת 4191 מן 4480 העם 5971 מדן 1835 ועד 5704 באר שׁבע 884 שׁבעים 7657 אלף 505 אישׁ׃ 376
