or the pestilence that stalks in darkness or the destruction that wastes at noonday.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people died, from Dan to Beer-sheba.