For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
⛓ Read Exodus 12 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The LORD will not allow the destroyer to enter' names ha-mashchit, 'the destroyer,' the agent Paul invokes in v.10. The Passover destroyer is reapplied to the wilderness-grumbling judgment, supplying Paul's exact figure.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The personified 'Destroyer' (ha-mashchit; LXX ho olothreuon) who passes through Egypt at Passover lies behind the title Apollyon ('Destroyer') in 9:11 — and behind the sparing of the forehead-sealed (9:4), since the Destroyer passes over the marked. Typological link between the destroying angel and the abyss-king.
Medium confidencePassover typology: the destroyer passes over houses bearing the apotropaic blood-mark on the doorposts, sparing the marked. The protective-mark-withholding-the-destroyer pattern stands behind both Ezek 9 and John's sealing. Faint and mediated through Ezekiel rather than direct, but figurally apt (and reinforced by the Lamb/blood imagery later in the chapter).
Low confidence