It's biblical. Fucking yahweh was always killing someone because somebody else fucked up. Real scumbag that yhwh.
And that was to punish "David" for screwing up a census.
Quote:15 So the Lord [g]sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
2 Sam 24
And that was to punish "David" for screwing up a census.