Reply To: How דוד המלך Stopped a Deadly Plague

Zugger613 The above needs some explanation as the tragedy did not happen by itself but by counting without shekolim. Maybe once he established the 100 brochos, it became a chiyuv as in SA O’CH 46.3. Our costume is to count with a pasuk. See Rabbenu Bechaye on ותא יהי-ה בהם נגף בפקוד אותם don’t separate the bad from the good of the group by counting.