From Nave’s Topical Bible
Lightning
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 25Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
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The passages, in Bible order (25)
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- Job 28:26
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Commentary on Job 28:261 voice
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the sounding tempests, then did He see it and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. By 'rain' the sayings of those that preach are used to be denoted. Whence it is said by Moses; Let my doctrine be waited for as the rain; whose words, that is to say, when they gently persuade are 'rain,' but when they thunder out terrible things touching the Judgment to come, they are 'sounding tempests.'
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIXPatristic
- Job 37:3
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Commentary on Job 37:32 voices
He directeth it under the whole heaven,.... His voice of thunder, which rolls from one end of the heaven to the other: he charges the clouds with it, and directs both it and them where they shall go and discharge; what tree, house, or man, it shall strike; and where the rain shall fall when the clouds burst: yet Pliny (x) atheistically calls thunder and lightning chance matters.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
He directeth it under the whole heaven - It is under the control of God, and he directs it where he pleases. It is not confined to one spot, but seems to be complaining from every part of the heavens. And his lightning - Margin, as in Hebrew “light.” There can be no doubt that the lightning is intended. Unto the ends of the earth - Margin, as in Hebrew “wings.” The word wings is given to the earth from the idea of its being spread out or expanded like the wings of a bird; compare Job 38:13; Eze 7:
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Job 38:25
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- Job 38:35
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Commentary on Job 38:351 voice
Canst thou send lightnings? - That is, lightning is wholly under the control of God. So it is now; for after all that man has done to discover its laws, and to guard against it, yet still man has made no advances toward a power to wield it, nor is it possible that he ever should.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Psalms 18:14
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
- Psalms 77:18
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Commentary on Psalms 77:181 voice
The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they feared. For the moment let us speak according to the letter; let us cling to the earth for the sake of the simpler folk. When the people passed through the Red Sea and through the Jordan, the waters understood their Creator, and the people did not understand. And the depths were troubled. "The sea saw, and fled: the Jordan was turned back." The great sound of the waters. "The clouds shook out the waters," it has in the Hebrew. The clouds gave forth their voice.
Jerome· Homily 10, on Psalm 76Patristic
- Psalms 78:48
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Commentary on Psalms 78:481 voice
"He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their substance to the fire." Symmachus renders it: "Who gave up their cattle to the plague, and their possessions to birds."
Hippolytus of Rome· Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII.Patristic
- Psalms 97:4
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
- Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Commentary on Psalms 135:71 voice
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth,.... Up to the heavens. Aben Ezra interprets this of the mist which went up out of the earth, and watered it, Gen 2:6; and still vapours are exhaled out of the earth by the force of the sun, and carried up into the air, and form various things, as wind, rain, &c.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 144:6
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Commentary on Psalms 144:61 voice
Flash forth the lightning, and you shall scatter them. See what he says. He did not say, you shall destroy them: but, you shall scatter them. We read in Genesis, at that time when they were building the tower, God says: 'Come, let us descend and confound their tongue' lest at some time they should have agreement among themselves; but let them be scattered abroad, it profits them.
Jerome· Homily 54, on Psalm 143Patristic
- Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Commentary on Jeremiah 10:131 voice
When ... - i. e., the rushing downpour of rain follows immediately upon the thunder. The rest of the verse is identical with marginal reference; but probably the words belong to Jeremiah, the Psalm being of comparatively late date. With rain - For the rain Psa 135:7.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Jeremiah 51:16
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Ezekiel 1:13
In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
Commentary on Ezekiel 1:131 voice
Lamps - “like the appearance of” flames. Omit the “and” before “like.” The “bright flames” resembled “coals of fire.” It went up - i. e. “fire went up.”
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Ezekiel 1:14
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
- Daniel 10:6
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Commentary on Daniel 10:62 voices
Verse 6. "And his body was like chrysolite." For "chrysolite," one of the twelve gems inserted in the oracular breastplate of the high priest, the Hebrew has trs'ys (tharsis) , a word which Theodotion and Symmachus simply left unchanged in transcription; but the Septuagint called it "the sea," according to the usage in the Psalms: "With a violent gale Thou dashest the ships of Tharsis in pieces," i.e., "the ships of the sea" (Psalm 48:7).
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TENPatristic
His body also was like the beryl,.... That is, that part of it which was not covered with the linen garment, and was seen, was like such a precious stone, said to be of an azure and sky colour, signifying he was the Lord from heaven; though, according to its name, it should be of a sea colour, greenish; and so, according to some, the beryl is.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Nahum 2:4
The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.
Commentary on Nahum 2:42 voices
The chariots shall rage in the streets,.... In the streets of Nineveh when taken; where they shall be drove in a furious manner from place to place, the men in them breathing out slaughter and death wherever they came. Kimchi understands this of the chariots of the Ninevites; who shall drive about in them in the streets of the city like madmen; not daring to go out to fight the enemy, being mightier and more numerous than they.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The chariots shall rage - Those of the besiegers and the besieged, meeting in the streets, producing universal confusion and carnage.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
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