Rain

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Kings 8:35 OT

  “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

• 1 Kings 8:36 OT

  then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

• James 5:18 NT

  He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

• 1 Kings 17:1 OT

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

• James 5:17 NT

  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

• Ezra 10:9 OT

  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling…

• Ezekiel 38:22 OT

  I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

• Proverbs 28:3 OT

  A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

• Job 37:6 OT

  For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

• Zechariah 10:1 OT

  Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

• Genesis 9:14 OT

  When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

• Ezekiel 1:28 OT

  As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice…

• 2 Samuel 23:4 OT

  shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

• Isaiah 18:4 OT

  For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• 1 Kings 18:44 OT

  On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”

• Luke 12:54 NT

  He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

• Proverbs 25:23 OT

  The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

• Proverbs 26:1 OT

  Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

• Psalms 135:7 OT

  He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

• Matthew 7:25 NT

  The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

• Matthew 7:27 NT

  The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

• Genesis 7:4 OT

  In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

• Genesis 7:12 OT

  It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

• Exodus 9:18 OT

  Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.