or the pestilence that stalks in darkness or the destruction that wastes at noonday.
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.
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.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.