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 vanquished 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 excellency; and he will not restrain them when his voice is heard.
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the 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 withers, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon fades. read more. The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell in it. 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 trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
And out of the throne proceeded lightning 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 over the breadth of the earth, and encircled the camp of the saints, 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 heaven;
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, 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 in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly 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 moved, and stood far off.
If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh in Naphtali, and said unto him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yea, the glittering sword 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 directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set their dominion in the earth?
Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are?
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and vanquished them.
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
And the living creatures ran back and forth like the appearance of a flash of lightning.
It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may flash like lightning: should we then make mirth? it despised the rod of my son, like every tree.
Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my vigor was turned in me into ruin, and I retained no strength.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad roads: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightning.
The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of dead bodies; and there is no end of their corpses; they stumble over the corpses:
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
Ask of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
For as the lightning came 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 clothing white as snow:
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.