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lightning

Lightning strikes with the hail plague in Egypt and flashes at Sinai; after the Ten Words the people see it with thunder, trumpet and smoke, and keep their distance.

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First mention

Exodus 9:23

Tags

3

Exodus 9, 19-20TheophanyWeather

Scripture references

  • Exodus 9:23

    Moses stretched out his staff towards heaven, and Yahweh thundered and rained down hail. Lightning struck the earth and Yahweh rained down hail on Egypt.

  • Exodus 9:24

    And so there was hail, and lightning accompanied the hail, very severe, such as had never been known anywhere in Egypt since it first became a nation.

  • Exodus 19:16

    Now at daybreak two days later, there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast; and, in the camp, all the people trembled.

  • Exodus 20:18

    Seeing the thunder pealing, the lightning flashing, the trumpet blasting and the mountain smoking, the people were all terrified and kept their distance.