The Plague or Pestilence
31 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Described As Noisome
- Desolating Effects of
- Egypt often Afflicted With
- Equally Fatal Day and Night
- Fatal to Man and Beast
- God's Judgments Upon the Apostasy
- Inflicted by God
- Israel Threatened With, As a Punishment for Disobedience
- Often Broke out Suddenly
- Often Followed War and Famine
- One of God's Four Sore Judgments
- Predicted to Happen Before Destruction of Jerusalem
- Sent Upon: David's Subjects for his Numbering the People
- Sent Upon: Israel for Despising Manna
- Sent Upon: Israel for Making Golden Calf
- Sent Upon: Israel for Murmuring at Destruction of Korah
- Sent Upon: Israel for Worshipping Baal-Peor
- Sent Upon: The Egyptians
- Specially Fatal in Cities
- The Diseased State of Man's Heart
- The Jews Sought Deliverance From, by Prayer
Described As Noisome
- Psalm 9:13 Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
Desolating Effects of
- Psalm 91:7 Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.
- Jeremiah 16:6–7 “Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them. …
- Amos 6:9–10 And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die. …
Egypt often Afflicted With
- Jeremiah 42:17 So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
- Amos 4:10 “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Equally Fatal Day and Night
- Psalm 91:5–6 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …
Fatal to Man and Beast
- Psalm 78:50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- Jeremiah 21:6 I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
God's Judgments Upon the Apostasy
- Revelation 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
- Revelation 18:8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day — death and grief and famine — and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
Inflicted by God
- Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
- Habakkuk 3:5 Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
Israel Threatened With, As a Punishment for Disobedience
- Leviticus 26:24–25 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. …
- Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
Often Broke out Suddenly
- Psalm 106:29 So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Often Followed War and Famine
- Jeremiah 27:13 Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
- Jeremiah 28:8 The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
- Jeremiah 29:17–18 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten. …
One of God's Four Sore Judgments
- Ezekiel 14:21 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments— sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague— in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
Predicted to Happen Before Destruction of Jerusalem
- Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
- Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
Sent Upon: David's Subjects for his Numbering the People
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Sent Upon: Israel for Despising Manna
- Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
Sent Upon: Israel for Making Golden Calf
- Exodus 32:35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
Sent Upon: Israel for Murmuring at Destruction of Korah
- Numbers 16:46–50 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.” …
Sent Upon: Israel for Worshipping Baal-Peor
- Numbers 25:18 For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
Sent Upon: The Egyptians
- Exodus 12:29–30 Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock. …
Specially Fatal in Cities
- Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Jeremiah 21:6 I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
- Jeremiah 21:9 Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
The Diseased State of Man's Heart
- 1 Kings 8:38 then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make— each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
The Jews Sought Deliverance From, by Prayer
- 1 Kings 8:37–38 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, …
- 2 Chronicles 20:9 ‘If disaster comes upon us— whether sword or judgment, plague or famine— we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.