2 Samuel 22:9

Smoke and consuming fire are pictured pouring from God in his anger. The imagery conveys the fierce intensity of his judgment against evil.

Cross-references · 17

• Heb 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
• Ps 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
• Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
• Ps 18:8Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
• Ps 97:3–5A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
• Exod 15:7–8In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
• 2 Sam 22:16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
• Exod 24:17The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
• Isa 30:27Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
• Jer 15:14I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.”
• Exod 19:18All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
• Job 41:20–21Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
• 2 Sam 22:13At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.
• Hab 3:5Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
• Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
• Jer 5:14Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
• Isa 30:33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

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