Интересно, что параллель с постом действительно-таки проявилась (впрочем, если долго искать..): They said to Him: ‘Sovereign of the Universe! In the case of a mortal king, if a province rebels against him and rises and curses the king or his deputies, even if only ten or twenty of them have done so, he sends his legions there and carries out a massacre, slaying the good with the bad, because he cannot tell which of them has rebelled and which has not, or who has honoured the king and who has cursed him... (Мидраш Рабба Чис 18:11)