Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
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Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
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Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hebrews 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
- Psalms 18:15 Then 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.
- Exodus 15:7-8 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Exodus 19:18 All 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.
- Exodus 24:17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:22 For 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.
- 2 Samuel 22:16 Then 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.
- Job 4:9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
- Job 41:20-21 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
- Psalms 18:8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
- Psalms 97:3-5 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Isaiah 30:27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.
- Jeremiah 5:14 Therefore 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 will devour them.
- Jeremiah 15:14 I 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 will burn on you.”
- Habakkuk 3:5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Lightning and thundering.
Lightning and thundering.
That is, clouds, and vapors.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning,…
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. See Gill on Psa 18:14.
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sa2 22:16And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. See Gill on Psa 18:15.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Smoke through his nostrils — Expressive of the…
9. Smoke through his nostrils — Expressive of the violent snortings, or bursts of wrath, as of the enraged war-horse.
Hot coals glowed — Flamed out in glowing brightness from Him as he sped on his path of vengeance. Compare 2Sa_22:13.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Smoke arose in his nostril,
9. Smoke arose in his nostril,
and fire from his mouth did devour:
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hot coals came burning from him.
The startling boldness of the language will be intelligible if the distinctive character of Hebrew symbolism is borne in mind. It is no “gross anthropomorphism,” for the Psalmist did not intend that the mind’s eye should clothe his figure in a concrete form. His aim is vividly to express the manifestation of the wrath of God, and he does so in figures which are intended to remain as purely mental conceptions, not to be realised as though God appeared in any visible shape. See some excellent remarks in Archbishop Trench’s Comm. on the Epistles to the Seven Churches, p. 43.
a smoke] The outward sign of the pent-up fires of wrath. So anger is said to smoke (Psa_74:1; Psa_80:4 marg.). This bold figure is suggested by the panting and snorting of an angry animal. Cp. Job_41:20; in illustration of which Mr Cox quotes from Bertram’s Travels in Carolina: “I perceived a crocodile rush from a small lake … Thick smoke came with a thundering noise from his nostrils.” Martial speaks of fumantem nasum ursi “the smoking nostril of an angry bear” (Epigr. vi. 64. 28).
fire] Compare again Job’s description of Leviathan (Job_41:19-21). Fire is the constant emblem of the consuming wrath of God. See Deu_32:22; Psa_97:3; Heb_12:29.
coals] The fiery messengers of vengeance. Cp. Psa_140:10.
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