Reply To: Explaining a Seeming Oddity in the Haggada

HaLeiVi and Chief, much appreciated. Still, it has an odd sound to it. It is the only pasuk quoted from Ketuvim (Divrei Hayamim) and not from Torah, and the wielder of the sword isn’t Hashem or a bechor but a malakh, and the context is the threat (which is lifted) of punishment for David’s census. The context of yetsiat Mitsrayim seems to be absent.