Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
From the brightness before Him Were brands of fire kindled!
From the brightness before him Burned forth coals of fire.
2 Samuel — David's reign in three movements — rise, fall, consequences — with the Davidic covenant (ch. 7) as the vertical spine down the centre. A covenant held through both rise and fall; a throne established for ever.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
2 Samuel 22:9Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
leads to
“For our God is a consuming fire.”
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
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The verses this one reaches2
Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
