Комментарий к Шмуэль А 25:38

After ten days. There were seven days of mourning for Shmuel, so the Holy One, Blessed is He, suspended his sentence so that it should not coincide the mourning for this wicked man with his mourning period. Afterward, he became ill for three days and died, as it is stated, "And Adonoy inflicted Novol," and a Talmudist had stated that if one was ill three days and died, it is a death of a plague. However, our Rabbis stated that these are the Ten Days of Repentance which the Holy One, Blessed is He, waited for him to repent. But, some say that they correspond to the ten meals²⁵See above verses 5,9, and Maharsha in Rosh Hashanah 18a. which Novol gave Dovid's servants, for Dovid had sent him ten youths, and he fed them.