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Hail

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

  • Job 38:22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
  • Haggai 2:17 I struck you— all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

Plague of, in Egypt

  • Exodus 9:18–29 Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now. So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when…
  • Psalm 78:48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
  • Psalm 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.

Destroys army of the Amorites

  • Joshua 10:11 As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Figurative

  • Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
  • Revelation 8:7 Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
  • Revelation 11:19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
  • Revelation 16:21 And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “hail” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.