³ They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”

¹⁵ By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.^(A)

⁶ I will strike the residents of this city, both people and animals. They will die in a severe plague.

¹² This will be the plague with which the Lord strikes all the people who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

¹⁵ The same plague as the previous one will strike^[a] the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the animals that are in those camps.