36 Bible Verses about Lightning

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Exodus 9:23-24

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Job 36:30-33

See how he scatters his lightning, bathing the depths of the sea. This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.read more.
His thunder announces the coming storm. Even the cattle make known its approach.

2 Samuel 22:13

Out of the brightness in front of you, you made lightning.

Job 37:3

He sends the lightning across the sky to the ends of the earth.

Job 38:24

What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

Psalm 78:48

He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.

Psalm 105:32

He gave them hail and lightning instead of rain throughout their land.

Psalm 97:4

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees and trembles.

Psalm 135:7

He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

Psalm 144:6

Flash lightning and scatter them. Send out your arrows and confuse them.

Jeremiah 10:12-13

He who made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisdom; also stretched out the heavens by his understanding. He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

Revelation 16:18

There were voices, and thunders, and lightnings. There was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

Ezekiel 21:10

'It is sharpened to make a slaughter and polished to flash like lightning! Shall we rejoice in the rod of my son despising every tree?''

Daniel 10:6

His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation. They went away at the light of your arrows and the shining of your glittering spear.

Zechariah 9:14

Jehovah will be seen over them. His arrow will go forth like lightning! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with windstorms of the south.

Luke 24:4

They were perplexed about what had happened. Two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.

Job 1:16

Before he finished speaking, another servant came and said: Lightning struck the sheep and the shepherds and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.

2 Kings 1:10-12

If I am a man of God, Elijah answered: Let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men! At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men. The king sent another officer with fifty men, who went up and said to Elijah: Man of God, the king orders you to come down at once! Since I am a man of God, Elijah answered: let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men! At once the fire of God came down and killed the officer and his men.

Luke 9:54

When his disciples James and John saw this they said: Lord, do you want us to request fire from heaven to consume them?

Revelation 20:9

They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (consumed) them.

Exodus 19:16

On the morning of the third day there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain. A very loud trumpet sounded. It caused all the people in the camp to tremble.

Revelation 4:5

Lightnings and thunders and voices came from the throne. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God.

Exodus 20:18

The people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast. They saw the lightning and the smoking mountain. They trembled with fear and stood at a distance.

Ezekiel 1:4

I saw a storm coming from the north. There was an immense cloud with flashing lightning surrounded by a bright light. The center of the lightning looked like glowing metal.

Revelation 8:5

The angel took the incense vessel, and filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth. There were voices, and thundering and lightning, and an earthquake.

Luke 17:24

Just as the light from lightning shines from one part of the sky to another part of the sky, so the Son of man will be in his day.

Nahum 2:4

The chariots wildly race through the streets. They rush to and fro in the broad ways. They look like torches and they run like lightning.

Job 38:35

Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you: Here we are?

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2 Samuel 22:15

You shot arrows and scattered them. You flashed bolts of lightning and confused them.

Psalm 18:14

He shot his arrows and scattered them. He flashed streaks of lightning to agitate (disturb and trouble) them.

Exodus 19:16

On the morning of the third day there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain. A very loud trumpet sounded. It caused all the people in the camp to tremble.

Revelation 4:5

Lightnings and thunders and voices came from the throne. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God.

Exodus 20:18

The people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast. They saw the lightning and the smoking mountain. They trembled with fear and stood at a distance.

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Isaiah 30:30

Jehovah will make his majestic voice heard. He will come with all his might, with furious anger, with firestorms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones.

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