What punishment was sent down upon the Israelites?

Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:

1. It was darkness and death. Twenty-four thousand of them died in one hour, and seventy thousand perished in total as a punishment. [Ibn ʿAbbās]
2. They were struck by a plague. They were tormented by it for forty nights and then died. [Wahb ibn Munabbih]
3. It was snow. Seventy thousand of them perished due to it. [Saʿīd ibn Jubayr]