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but he sent a horrible disease

Here David speaks about Yahweh causing the people to be afflicted by a disease as if Yahweh sent a disease to them in the same way that someone sends a person or a messenger. Alternate translation: "but he caused them to suffer from a horrible disease" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

a horrible disease

a disease that caused people to slowly become weak and caused some of them to die