triggering
Okay! Time for the answer. First, congrats to @tardis, and @jscholes for playing. While it is devastating, an accessibility cookie is not, in fact, the answer.The world's first fedidreams award goes to @modulux, for getting the closest with his guess of "smothering". Note: fedidreams awards are completely virtual awards that aren't tracked by anyone and that nobody cares about. They can't be redeemed for anything. Enjoy your award!
And now, the answer. First, the bible passages you needed:
* "God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7. The man was Adam, and God's first act of creation on him was forming him from the dust, and his second action was breathing life into him. Thus, undoing the second action would be taking life away.
* "This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”" -- Jeremiah 31:15. Rachel was weeping because her children were dead.
* “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.” -- Matthew 2:18. Making it clear that the children were babies, IE the babies killed by Herod.
Second, the rest explained:
* It comes at night, IE while a baby is sleeping
* It leaves silence, because the baby is no longer breathing. Parents in North America often use baby monitors to hear that the baby is still breathing. Not hearing this would be devastating.
Thus, the answer is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It kills babies suddenly in the night.