Verse 15
15. A pestilence Some deadly plague scattered through all the land by the destroying angel, so that at the end of three days it might be said of all the homes in Israel, as it was once in Egypt, there was scarcely a house where there was not one dead. David was vainglorious over the multitude of his warriors, but this one stroke almost decimates them.
To the time appointed The end of the third day. This is the only natural sense of the words here, and there is no evidence that the pestilence was removed before the third day.
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