Sickness: Sent by God

He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. …

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.