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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You shot arrows and scattered them. You flashed bolts of lightning and confused them.
when he made rules for the rain and set paths for the thunderstorms,
He thunders with the roar of his voice! It is like the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes.
He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.
Flash lightning and scatter them. Send out your arrows and confuse them.
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty (leave them unpunished). Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. 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 become dry and the flower of Lebanon withers. read more. The mountains quake because of him, and the hills melt. The earth trembles (shakes) (heaves) at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwells in it. Who can stand before his indignation (displeasure)? Who can resist (withstand) (endure) the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken to pieces by him.
Jehovah will be seen over them. His arrow will go forth like lightning! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with windstorms of the south.
Lightnings and thunders and voices came from the throne. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God.
They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (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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Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.
On the morning of the third day there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain. A very loud trumpet sounded. It caused all the people in the camp to tremble.
The people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast. They saw the lightning and the smoking mountain. They trembled with fear and stood at a distance.
I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me.
She sent for Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him: Has Jehovah the God of Israel commanded, saying: 'Go and deploy troops at mount Tabor. Take ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
Then the ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at Jehovah's stern warning, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him.
when he made rules for the rain and set paths for the thunderstorms,
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you: Here we are?
He shot his arrows and scattered them. He flashed streaks of lightning to agitate (disturb and trouble) them.
Bow down your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down. Touch the mountains that they may smoke.
'It is sharpened to make a slaughter and polished to flash like lightning! Shall we rejoice in the rod of my son despising every tree?''
I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. My appearance turned deathlike (pallor) (livid) (pale) and I had no strength.
The chariots wildly race through the streets. They rush to and fro in the broad ways. They look like torches and they run like lightning.
The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation. They went away at the light of your arrows and the shining of your glittering spear.
In the spring ask Jehovah for rain. It is Jehovah who makes storm clouds and lightning. He will give showers of rain for the vegetation in the field.
Lightning comes from the east and is seen in the west. The coming of the Son of man is like this.
His appearance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
He said to them: I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven.