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 routed them.
when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers. read more. The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,
And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed 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 the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.
when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
And the living creatures darted to and fro, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.
sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning!(Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)
So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed,and I retained no strength.
The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end-- they stumble over the bodies!
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORDwho makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.