Exodus 9:15

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Cross-references

Exodus 9:3 Parallel

Exodus 9:3 describes the actual livestock plague; here God says He could have struck with pestilence, showing His restraint.

Exodus 9:6 Parallel

Exodus 9:6 reports the fulfillment of the livestock plague; here God says He could have done worse, highlighting His mercy.

Exodus 9:16 Parallel

Exodus 9:16 immediately follows, revealing God's purpose for raising Pharaoh — to display His power and spread His name.

Exodus 3:20 Allusion

Exodus 3:20 uses the same 'stretch out my hand' phrase, promising the wonders God later performs against Egypt.

Exodus 12:29 records the actual smiting of firstborn, echoing the kind of devastating judgment God threatened here with pestilence.

Exodus 12:30 shows the great cry in Egypt after the firstborn plague — a concrete result of the death God warned He could have sent.

Exodus 11:4-6 announces the death of firstborn — a different plague, but both show God's judgment on Egypt with deadly force.

1 Kings 13:34 uses the same 'cut off from the earth' phrase, applying that judgment language to Jeroboam's sinful house.

Proverbs 2:22 repeats 'cut off from the earth' as a general principle: the wicked are removed by God's judgment.

1 Kings 8:42 references God's 'stretched out arm' — the same power symbol that here is 'stretched out hand' to strike.

2 Kings 17:36 invokes God's 'stretched out arm' from the Exodus, linking the same mighty hand that could smite Egypt here.

In Jeremiah 21:5, God fights with outstretched hand — the same image of divine judgment by hand used here against Egypt.