Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
Parallel translations
- KJV The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
- BSB The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
- NKJV The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.
- NASB The voice of the Lord divides flames of fire.
- NLT The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightning.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 77:18The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
- Lev 10:2Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
- Exod 9:23Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Ps 144:5–6Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
- Job 38:35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’
- 2 Kgs 1:10–12Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
- Job 37:3He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
- Num 16:35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
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