Plague

The plague is the judgment David chose — three days of divine devastation that kills seventy thousand people across Israel, the most immediate and widespread of the three offered consequences.

Plague is named here in the closing summary as one episode woven into David's complex story — a reference to the divine judgment David brought on Israel through his census, one of the darker chapters in an otherwise honored life.

The plagues on Egypt are invoked here by the Philistine commanders, who recall the devastation Israel's God unleashed — their secondhand memory of divine judgment fuels their terror at facing the Ark.

The plague here refers to the divine judgment that struck Israel, which God halted at this very threshing floor — making it a site of divine intervention that David then marked with an altar.

The plague is previewed here as one of the chapter's pivotal events — a devastating divine consequence that kills 70,000 people before God calls it off over Jerusalem.

Plague is the fourth intervention in God's escalating series — explicitly compared to the plagues of Egypt, it invokes Israel's own foundational story of deliverance as a frame for their inexplicable refusal to respond.

The plagues are referenced here as irrefutable evidence of God's love and power — Moses uses them to expose the absurdity of Israel's claim that God hated them, after he had broken Egypt's grip through supernatural judgment.

Plague is notably absent here — this generation didn't die in a dramatic supernatural strike but through the quiet, relentless passage of time, making the judgment feel even more final.

The plagues on Egypt are referenced as the opening exhibit in Moses's case — the most dramatic display of divine power these people's parents witnessed, yet still insufficient to fully transform their hearts.

Plague is referenced here as part of the long road Moses surveys in his closing words — the plagues on Egypt are one thread in the full story of God's faithfulness that Moses is now sure of at the end of his life.

The plagues are mentioned here in the chapter introduction as part of the larger story Exodus 1 is setting up — the oppression in this chapter is the catalyst that eventually brings God's judgments upon Egypt.

The term plague frames this chapter's two coming judgments — locusts and darkness — as part of a deliberate, escalating series God is using to demonstrate his supreme authority over Egypt.

The nine plagues are invoked here as cumulative evidence of God's power — each one a failed opportunity for Pharaoh to relent before the devastating tenth arrives.

The plagues are referenced here as the nine preceding acts of judgment — water to blood through total darkness — establishing that this tenth and final act is categorically different in both nature and finality.

The tenth plague — the death of every Egyptian firstborn — has just occurred, making God's command to consecrate Israel's firstborn an immediate, visceral response to that night's events.