36 Bible Verses about Lightning

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Exodus 9:23-24

And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth, and LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Job 36:30-33

Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea. For by these he judges the peoples. he gives food in abundance. He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.read more.
The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning [the storm] that comes up.

2 Samuel 22:13

At the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled.

Job 37:3

He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Job 38:24

By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Psalm 78:48

He also gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalm 105:32

He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.

Psalm 97:4

His lightnings lightened the world. The earth saw, and trembled.

Psalm 135:7

who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries,

Psalm 144:6

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Jeremiah 10:12-13

He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Revelation 16:18

And there occurred lightnings, and thunders, and voices. And a great earthquake occurred, such as did not happen from that time men came to be upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, so great.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Shall we then make mirth? It scorns the scepter of my son, every tree.

Daniel 10:6

Also his body was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of thine arrows as they went, at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Zechariah 9:14

And LORD shall be seen over them. And his arrow shall go forth as the lightning. And lord LORD will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

Luke 24:4

And it came to pass while they were bewildered about this, that behold, two men stood near them in shining apparel.

Job 1:16

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

2 Kings 1:10-12

And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. And again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly. And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Luke 9:54

And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did?

Revelation 20:9

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the encampment of the sanctified and the beloved city. And fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

Exodus 19:16

And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Revelation 4:5

And out of the throne proceeds lightnings and voices and thunders. And seven lamps of fire burned before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Exodus 20:18

And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

Ezekiel 1:4

And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it, as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

Revelation 8:5

And the agent who took the censer, also filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast it to the earth. And there occurred thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Revelation 11:19

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was seen in his temple. And there occurred lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and great hail.

Luke 17:24

For just as the lightning, its flashing from under the sky to under the sky, illuminates, so will the Son of man be in his day.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth. And thy judgments are [as] the light that goes forth.

Nahum 2:4

The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways. The appearance of them is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

Job 38:35

Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

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2 Samuel 22:15

And he sent out arrows, and scattered them, lightning, and discomfited them.

Psalm 18:14

And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

Exodus 19:16

And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Revelation 4:5

And out of the throne proceeds lightnings and voices and thunders. And seven lamps of fire burned before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Exodus 20:18

And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

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Isaiah 30:30

And LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the coming down of his arm with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast and tempest and hailstones.

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