Reference: Thunder
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And lightning are significant manifestations of the power of God, and emblems of his presence, Ex 19:16; 1Sa 2:10; 12:17; Ps 18:13. Thunder is poetically called "the voice of the Lord" in the sublime description of a thunder-storm in Ps 29:11;
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The God of glory thundereth;
The Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars;
Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon," etc.
See also Job 37:1-5; 40:9; Jer 10:13. In illustration of Ps 29:9, Moffat, while describing the thunder-storms of South Africa, say that the antelopes flee in consternation; and that he has observed the Bechuanas starting off early on the morning following such a storm in quest of young antelopes prematurely born. In Ps 78:48, "hot thunderbolts" means lightning.
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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 storm makes my heart beat wildly. Listen! All of you listen to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth. read more. He sends the lightning across the sky to the ends of the earth. He thunders with the roar of his voice! It is like the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes. At God's command amazing things happen, wonderful things that we cannot understand.
Do you have an arm (power) like God's? Can your voice thunder like his?
Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.
The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: Glory!
Jehovah will give power (strength) to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace (prosperity) (health) (safety).
He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.
Easton
often referred to in Scripture (Job 40:9; Ps 77:18; 104:7). James and John were called by our Lord "sons of thunder" (Mr 3:17). In Job 39:19, instead of "thunder," as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version translates (ra'amah) by "quivering main" (marg., "shaking"). Thunder accompanied the giving of the law at Sinai (Ex 19:16). It was regarded as the voice of God (Job 37:2; Ps 18:13; 81:7; comp. Joh 12:29). In answer to Samuel's prayer (1Sa 12:17-18), God sent thunder, and "all the people greatly feared," for at such a season (the wheat-harvest) thunder and rain were almost unknown in Palestine.
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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.
It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king. Samuel prayed. That same day Jehovah sent thunder and rain. Then all the people became afraid of Jehovah and of Samuel.
Listen! All of you listen to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth.
Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
Do you have an arm (power) like God's? Can your voice thunder like his?
Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
You called in trouble and I rescued you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah..
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
James the son of Zebedee, John the brother of James surnamed Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:
The crowd near him only heard thunder. Some said an angel spoke to him.
Fausets
Rare in the clear air of Palestine in harvest time or summer, which shows how its coming at Samuel's call unto Jehovah was by divine agency (1Sa 12:17-18). God so blessed the Holy Land that the ingathering of fruits and the threshing in the open air were unimpeded by rain. Its coming then would be as unseasonable and calamitous as "honour" conferred on a "fool" (Pr 26:1). Symbolizing divine wrath and judgment (Ex 19:16; Ps 29:3-9; 1Sa 2:10). Thunderings are figuratively spoken of as "voices of God" (Ex 9:28 margin, compare Joh 12:29-30). Job 26:14, translated "and how faint is the word whisper that we hear of Him! but the thunder (i.e. the majestic fullness) of His power (in antithesis to 'the whisper') who can understand?" (1Co 13:9-12.) Job 39:19, "hast thou clothed his (the horse's) neck with thunder?" i.e. majesty (Umbreit): or his arched neck inspiring fear as the thunder does; but Maurer, "with his trembling, quivering mane."
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Pray to Jehovah! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go. You do not have to stay here any longer.
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.
It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king. Samuel prayed. That same day Jehovah sent thunder and rain. Then all the people became afraid of Jehovah and of Samuel.
These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear from him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?
Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, Jehovah is over many waters. The voice of Jehovah is powerful. The voice of Jehovah is glorious. read more. The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars. Jehovah splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip along like a calf and Mount Sirion like a wild bull. The voice of Jehovah cuts with flames of fire from lightning. The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness. Jehovah makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble. The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: Glory!
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor does not become a fool.
The crowd near him only heard thunder. Some said an angel spoke to him. Jesus said: This voice came for your sake and not for mine.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part. When the perfect comes, the partial (imperfect) (incomplete) will be done away. read more. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
Hastings
There is no finer description of a thunderstorm than that of Ps 29. In a land of high mountains and deep gorges, split throughout its length by the great cleft of the Jordan, the effect of thunder is peculiarly terrible. In Palestine it is confined almost entirely to winter (1Sa 12:17 f.), but the writer once witnessed a terrific storm late in April, among the Gilead uplands. It is invariably accompanied by rain. According to poetic and popular Ideas, thunder was the voice of God (Ps 104:7; Job 37:4 etc.), which a soul gifted with insight might understand and interpret (Joh 12:28 f.; cf. Mr 1:11; Mt 3:17 etc.). It is the expression of His resistless power (1Sa 2:10; Ps 18:13 etc.), and of His inexorable vengeance (Isa 30:30 etc.). Thunder plays a part in afflicting the Egyptians (Ex 9:23 ff.), at the delivery of the Law (Ex 19:16; 20:18), and in discomfiting the Philistines (1Sa 7:10). It is not guided by caprice, but by the will of God (Job 28:26; 38:25). It appears largely in the more terrible imagery of the Apocalypse. For 'Sons of Thunder,' see Boanerges.
W. Ewing.
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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.
The adversaries of Jehovah will be broken to pieces. He thunders in the heavens against them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn (power) of His anointed.
While Samuel was offering the burnt sacrifice, the Philistines moved forward to attack. Just then Jehovah thundered from heaven against them. They became completely confused and fled in panic.
It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.
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.
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm?
Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
Jehovah will make his majestic voice heard. He will come with all his might, with furious anger, with firestorms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones.
Then a voice from heaven said: This is my Son whom I love and whom I have approved.
Then a voice came from heaven: You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Father, glorify your name. A voice came from heaven: I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
Morish
This is of rare occurrence in Palestine, and is regarded in scripture as being the voice of God in power, both in the O.T. of the past and in the Revelation of the future. Ps. 29; Ps 77:18; 104:7; Re 4:5; 6:1; etc.: compare also Joh 12:29. In Ps 78:48, in recounting the plagues of Egypt, the flocks are represented as being consumed by HOT THUNDERBOLTS. The word is resheph, and is also translated 'coals,' 'burning coals,' 'burning heat.' Doubtless lightning is referred to, as when the 'fire of God' fell from heaven and burnt up Job's sheep. Job 1:16.
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Before he finished speaking, another servant came and said: Lightning struck the sheep and the shepherds and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
The crowd near him only heard thunder. Some said an angel spoke to him.
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.
I saw the Lamb open one of the seven seals. And I heard one of the living creatures speak with a voice like thunder. He said: Come!
Smith
is hardly ever heard in Palestine form the middle of April to the middle of September; hence it was selected by Samuel as a striking expression of the divine displeasure toward the Israelites.
Rain in harvest was deemed as extraordinary as snow in summer,
and Jerome states that he had never witnessed it in the latter part of June or in July. Comm. on
In the imaginative philosophy of the Hebrews, thunder was regarded as the voice of Jehovah,
Job 37:2,4-5; 40:9; Ps 18:13; 29:3-9; Isa 30:30-31
who dwelt behind the thunder-cloud.
Thunder was, to the mind of the Jew, the symbol of divine power
etc., and vengeance.
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The adversaries of Jehovah will be broken to pieces. He thunders in the heavens against them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn (power) of His anointed.
It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.
Listen! All of you listen to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth.
He thunders with the roar of his voice! It is like the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes. At God's command amazing things happen, wonderful things that we cannot understand.
Do you have an arm (power) like God's? Can your voice thunder like his?
Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.
The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, Jehovah is over many waters. The voice of Jehovah is powerful. The voice of Jehovah is glorious. read more. The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars. Jehovah splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip along like a calf and Mount Sirion like a wild bull. The voice of Jehovah cuts with flames of fire from lightning. The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness. Jehovah makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble. The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: Glory!
You called in trouble and I rescued you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah..
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor does not become a fool.
Jehovah will make his majestic voice heard. He will come with all his might, with furious anger, with firestorms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones. The people of Assyria will be shattered at the sound of Jehovah's voice. He will strike them with his rod.