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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He shot arrows and scattered them; [He hurled] lightning bolts and routed them.
when He established a limit for the rain and a path for the lightning,
Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His [rumbling] voice is heard.
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Flash [Your] lightning and scatter the foe; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave [the guilty] unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. He rebukes the sea so that it dries up, and He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; even the flower of Lebanon withers. read more. The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt; the earth tremblesat His presence- the world and all who live in it. Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, even rocks are shattered before Him.
Then the Lord will appear over them, and His arrow will fly like lightning. The Lord God will sound the trumpet and advance with the southern storms.
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and thunder. Burning before the throne were seven fiery torches, which are the seven spirits of God.
They came up over the surface of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the saints, the beloved city. Then 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 burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the sky.
So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.
All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain [surrounded by] smoke. When the people saw [it] they trembled and stood at a distance.
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand takes hold of judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "Hasn't the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded [you]: 'Go, deploy [the troops] on Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men from the Naphtalites and Zebulunites?
The depths of the sea became visible, the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him.
when He established a limit for the rain and a path for the lightning,
He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; His lightning to the ends of the earth.
Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth?
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: "Here we are"?
He shot His arrows and scattered them; He hurled lightning bolts and routed them.
Lord, part Your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
The creatures were darting back and forth like flashes of lightning.
It is sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice? The scepter of My son, the sword despises every tree.
I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale,and I was powerless.
The chariots dash madly through the streets; they rush around in the plazas. They look like torches; they dart back and forth like lightning.
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end- they stumble over their dead.
Sun and moon stand still in [their] lofty residence, at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
Ask the Lord for rain in the season of spring rain. The Lord makes the rain clouds, and He will give them showers of rain and crops in the field for everyone.
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
His appearance was like lightning, and his robe was as white as snow.
He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.