Rain

How Nave’s arranged it

• Forty days of, at the time of the great flood of NoahGenesis 7:4Genesis 7:10–12Genesis 7:17–24
• The plague of, upon EgyptExodus 9:22–26Exodus 9:33Exodus 9:34
• Miraculously caused
• By Samuel1 Samuel 12:16–19
• By Elijah1 Kings 18:41–45
• David delivered by2 Samuel 5:17–21Isaiah 28:21
• North wind unfavorable toProverbs 25:23
• Withheld as judgmentDeuteronomy 11:17Deuteronomy 28:241 Kings 8:352 Chronicles 7:13Jeremiah 3:3Amos 4:7Zechariah 14:17
• The earth will never again be destroyed byGenesis 9:8–17
• Sent by GodDeuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 11:14Job 37:6Isaiah 30:23Jeremiah 5:24Jeremiah 14:22
• Contingent upon obedienceLeviticus 26:3Leviticus 26:4Deuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 11:14
• Prayer for1 Kings 8:351 Kings 8:362 Chronicles 6:262 Chronicles 6:27

The passages, in Bible order (37)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 7:4

   For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 7:42 voices

   “While Noah told them of the judgment at a distance, they were tempted to put off their repentance: but now he is ordered to tell them that it is at the door; that they have but one week more to turn them in, to see if that will now at last awaken them to consider the things that belong to their peace.

   “God granted one hundred years while the ark was being made to that generation, and still they did not repent. God summoned beasts that they had never seen and still they showed no remorse.

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2. Genesis 7:10–12

   And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 7:10–122 voices

   “And it came to pass after seven days,.... Were ended, or on the seventh day, after God had given the orders to Noah, to prepare for his going into the ark, with his family, and all the creatures: that the waters of the flood were upon the earth: that is, they began to be upon the earth; for it continued to rain from hence forty days and forty nights; and still the waters continued to increase, and it was an hundred and fifty days before they began to ebb.

   “And when seven days had passed, the waters of the flood inundated the earth. The seventh day signifies the Sabbath, that is, the rest of future life.

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3. Genesis 7:17–24

   For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 7:17–242 voices

   “The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. And at the end of this period the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted on the waters in the direction in which they were flowing, and toward what was formerly the higher ground. Gen 7:19 Upon the land. - The land is to be understood of the portion of the earth’s surface known to man. This, with an unknown margin beyond it, was covered with the waters. But this is all that Scripture warrants us to assert.

   “When God judges he will overcome. If he begin, he will make an end; his way is perfect, both in judgment and mercy. The gradual approaches and advances of God's judgments, which are designed to bring sinners to repentance, are often abused to the hardening of them in their presumption.

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4. Genesis 9:8–17

   Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

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5. Exodus 9:22–26

   Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

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6. Exodus 9:33

   Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

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7. Exodus 9:34

   When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 9:342 voices

   “He sinned yet more, and hardened his heart - These were merely acts of his own; “for who can deny,” says Mr. Psalmanazar, “that what God did on Pharaoh was much more proper to soften than to harden his heart; especially when it is observable that it was not till after seeing each miracle, and after the ceasing of each plague, that his heart is said to have been hardened?

   “The prayer of Moses opened and shut heaven, like Elias's ( Jam. v. 17, 18 ), and such is the power of God's two witnesses ( Rev. xi. 6 ); yet neither Moses nor Elias, nor those two witnesses, could subdue the hard hearts of men. Pharaoh was frightened into a compliance by the judgment, but, when it was over, his convictions vanished, and his fair promises were forgotten.

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8. Leviticus 26:3

   If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:31 voice

   “As “the book of the covenant” Exo. 20:22–23:33 concludes with promises and warnings Exo 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Deut. 27–30 is marked by broader and deeper promises and denunciations having immediate reference not only to outward consequences, but to the spiritual death incurred by transgressing the divine will.

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9. Leviticus 26:4

   I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:41 voice

   “Rain in due season - What in Scripture is called the early and the latter rain. The first fell in Palestine at the commencement of spring, and the latter in autumn - Calmet.

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10. Deuteronomy 11:13

    So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:131 voice

    “And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day,.... In the name, and by the authority of the Lord, the only lawgiver: to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul; see Deu 10:12. Jarchi interprets this of prayer; but it is not to be restrained to that only, but includes the whole service of God, in all the parts of it, performed from a principle of love to him, and in sincerity and truth.

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11. Deuteronomy 11:14

    then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:141 voice

    “The rain - in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain - By the first or former rain we are to understand that which fell in Judea about November, when they sowed their seed, and this served to moisten and prepare the ground for the vegetation of the seed. The latter rain fell about April, when the corn was well grown up, and served to fill the ears, and render them plump and perfect. Rain rarely fell in Judea at any other seasons than these.

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12. Deuteronomy 11:17

    or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:171 voice

    “Shut up the heaven - Which is compared sometimes to a great store-house wherein God lays up his treasures of rain, Job xxxviii, 22, the doors whereof God is said to open when he gives rain, and to shut when he witholds it.

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13. Deuteronomy 28:24

    The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:241 voice

    “The rain of thy land powder and dust - As their heavens - atmosphere, clouds, etc., were to be as brass - yielding no rain; so the surface of the earth must be reduced to powder; and this, being frequently taken up by the strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain.

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14. 1 Samuel 12:16–19

    Now, therefore, stand and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes.

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:16–192 voices

    “As a matter of fact, the works Moses did, Samuel did too. Moses resisted God and prevented him from destroying his people when God said to him, "Let me alone, that I may strike this people." Just see the power of Moses! What does God say to him? Let me alone; you are compelling me, your prayers, as it were, restrain me; your prayers hold back my hand. I shoot an arrow; I hurl a javelin; and your prayers are the shield of the people. Let me alone that I might strike down this people.

    “But Samuel made it to appear that this was designed by the almighty power of God on purpose to convince them that they had done very wickedly in asking a king; not only by its coming in an unusual time, in wheat-harvest, and this on a fair clear day, when there appeared not to the eye any signs of a storm, but by his giving notice of it before.

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15. 2 Samuel 5:17–21

    When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went down to the stronghold.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:17–212 voices

    “The hold - Not the same place which is so named in 2Sa 5:7, 2Sa 5:9, but probably the cave (or hold) of Adullam 2Sa 23:13. The invasion most probably took place before David had completed his buildings in the city of David; and is probably referred to in 2Sa 23:8-17.

    “The kingdom of the Messiah, as soon as ever it was set up in the world, was thus vigorously attacked by the powers of darkness, who, with the combined force both of Jews and Gentiles, made head against it. The heathen raged, and the kings of the earth set themselves to oppose it; but all in vain, Ps. ii. The destruction will turn, as this did, upon Satan's own kingdom.

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16. 1 Kings 8:35

    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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