2 Samuel 24:15-25 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed… Death on the Pale Horse — the Black Death of mediaeval times (1848) in some one of divers forms, issued forth now. "Appearing in the heat of the summer months, aggravated by the very greatness of the population which had occasioned the census, spreading with the rapidity of an Oriental disorder in crowded habitations, it flew from end to end of the country in three days." (Dean Stanley.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
    |