## a fixed time ##

This is the time God decided he would stop the plage.

## seventy thousand ##

"70,000" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

## from Dan to Beersheba ##

The writer mentions the city of Dan in the north and the city of Beersheba in the south to mean the entire nation of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])

## the angel reached out with his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it ##

AT: "the angel started destroying the people in Jerusalem" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## Yahweh changed his mind about the harm ##

“Yahweh stopped the evil that he was allowing the angel to do,” (See [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## Now draw back your hand ##

AT: "Do not harm them any longer"

## Araunah ##

This is the name of a man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

## the threshing floor ##

A threshing floor was a hard flat surface where people separated the grain from the stock that it grew on; either by dragging a heave object such as a large board or rock over it, by hitting it with a stick or getting cattle to walk on it.