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Thunder
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or And lightning are significant manifestations of the power of God, and emblems of his presence, Exodus 19:16 1 Samuel 2:10 12:17 Psalm 18:13 . Thunder is poetically called "the voice of the Lord" in the sublime description of a thunder-storm in Psalm 29:11;
"The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The God of glory thundereth;
The Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars;
Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon," etc.
See also Job 37:1-5 40:9 Jeremiah 10:13 . In illustration of Ps
29:9, Moffat, while describing the thunder-storms of South Africa,
say that the antelopes flee in consternation; and that he has
observed the Bechuanas starting off early on the morning following
such a storm in quest of young antelopes prematurely born. In Ps
78:48, "hot thunderbolts" means lightning.
These files are public domain and are a derivative of the topics are from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary published in 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Thunder'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/t/thunder.html. 1859.
