And Joab said, “As God lives, unless you had spoken, surely then by morning all the people would have given up pursuing their brethren.”

In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

So David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. By morning light not one of them was left who had not gone over the Jordan.

And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Like the tender grass springing out of the earth, By clear shining after rain.’

Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.