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 sent out arrows and scattered them; he sent forth lightning, and consumed them.
when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.
After it shall the sound roar; his valiant voice shall thunder; and he will not stay them even when his voice is heard.
He who causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth, made the lightnings in the rain; he who brings the winds out of his treasuries.
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and destroy them.
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed. read more. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the world and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the shofar and shall go forth as the whirlwinds of the south.
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven 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 the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of the heavens;
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and the LORD raised his voice and it hailed, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
And it came to pass on the third day when the morning came, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.
And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.
if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.
And she sent and called Barak, the son of Abinoam, out of Kedesh of Naphtali and said unto him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded thee, saying, Go and draw toward Mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?
Then the springs of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.
when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.
He shall place it straight under the whole of the heavens, and his light shall extend unto the ends of the earth.
Dost thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou use its power in the earth?
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?
He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he shot out lightnings and destroyed them.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
And the living creatures ran and turned as the appearance of lightnings.
it is sharpened to slay victims; it is furbished that it may glitter; should we then make mirth? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.
Therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, for my strength was turned into dismay, and I retained no strength.
The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall flow through the streets, their faces like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.
The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, and there is a multitude of slain and a great number of carcasses; and there shall be no end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses,
The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, so the LORD shall make lightnings and shall give you abundant rain and grass in the field to each one.
For as the lightning that comes out of the east and shines even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow;
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.