Reference: Lightning
Easton
frequently referred to by the sacred writers (Na 1:3-6). Thunder and lightning are spoken of as tokens of God's wrath (2Sa 22:15; Job 28:26; 37:4; Ps 135:7; 144:6; Zec 9:14). They represent God's glorious and awful majesty (Re 4:5), or some judgment of God on the world (Re 20:9).
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And he sent out arrows, and scattered them, lightning, and discomfited them.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not restrain [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.
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,
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. read more. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
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.
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.
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.
Hastings
Our colloquial use of 'fire' for 'lightning' had its counterpart in Heb., e.g. in such a phrase as 'fire ('
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Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.
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.
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.
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.
if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and approach to mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the sons of Naph
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth?
Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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.
So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. And there remained no strength in me, for my fitness was turned in me into debility, and I retained no strength.
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.
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,
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.
Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.
And his appearance was as lightning and his clothing white as snow.
And he said to them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from the sky.