Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
99 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
24 sections
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Phenomena of Darkness at the Crucifixion
- Phenomena of Dew on Gideon's Fleece
- Phenomena of Dew, Copious
- Phenomena of Elijah's Prayer
- Phenomena of Fire from Heaven at Elijah's Command
- Phenomena of Fire from Heaven Upon the Cities of the Plain
- Phenomena of Plagues of Hail, and Thunder, and Lightning in Egypt
- Phenomena of Rain Confuses the Philistine Army
- Phenomena of Rain in Answer to Samuel's Prayer
- Phenomena of Rain, the Formation of
- Phenomena of Stars in Their Courses Fought Against Sisera
- Phenomena of Stones from Heaven
- Phenomena of Sun Stood Still
- Phenomena of That Brought the Quails
- Phenomena of The Autumnal Weather on the Mediterranean
- Phenomena of The Deluge
- Phenomena of The East Wind
- Phenomena of The East Wind That Divided the Red Sea
- Phenomena of The Plague of Darkness
- Phenomena of The Whirlwind Which Carried Elijah to Heaven
- Phenomena of The Wind Under God's Control
- Phenomena of Wind Destroyed Job's Children
- Symbolical used in the Revelation of John
General Scriptures Concerning
- Genesis 2:5–6 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. …
- Genesis 27:39 His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
- Job 9:7 He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
- Job 26:7–8 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing. …
- Job 26:11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
- Job 27:20–21 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night. …
- Job 28:24–27 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. …
- Job 29:19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
- Job 36:27–33 For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, …
- Job 37:6–22 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ …
- Job 38:8–11 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, …
- Job 38:22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Job 38:24–29 In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth? …
- Job 38:31–35 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? …
- Job 38:37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- Psalm 18:8–15 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth. …
- Psalm 19:2–6 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. …
- Psalm 29:3–10 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters. …
- Psalm 65:8–12 Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy. …
- Psalm 104:2–3 He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent, …
- Psalm 104:7 At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away —
- Psalm 104:13 He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
- Psalm 104:19–20 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set. …
- Psalm 147:7–8 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God, …
- Psalm 148:7–8 Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths, …
- Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
- Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
- Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
- Ecclesiastes 1:6–7 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course. …
- Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
- Isaiah 5:5–6 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled. …
- Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.
- Isaiah 24:18 Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Isaiah 50:3 I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
- Jeremiah 4:11–12 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift; …
- Jeremiah 10:13 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Jeremiah 51:16 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Daniel 2:21 He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
- Hosea 6:4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come — a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- Joel 2:30–31 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. …
- Amos 9:6 He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
- Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
- Matthew 8:24–27 Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping. …
- Matthew 16:2–3 But He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘The weather will be fair, for the sky is red,’ …
- Matthew 24:27 For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- Luke 8:24–25 The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm. …
- Luke 12:54–56 Then Jesus said to the crowds, “As soon as you see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and that is what happens. …
- Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- Luke 23:44–45 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. …
- John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
- Acts 2:19–20 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. …
- James 5:17–18 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. …
- 2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
- Jude 12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
- Revelation 6:12–14 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, …
- Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
- Revelation 8:5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
- 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 8:10 Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
- Revelation 8:12 Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
- Revelation 9:1–2 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. …
- Revelation 11:6 These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
- 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.
Phenomena of Darkness at the Crucifixion
- Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- Luke 23:44–45 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. …
Phenomena of Dew on Gideon's Fleece
- Judges 6:36–40 Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said, …
Phenomena of Dew, Copious
- Psalm 133:3 It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
Phenomena of Elijah's Prayer
- 1 Kings 18:41–45 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” …
Phenomena of Fire from Heaven at Elijah's Command
- 2 Kings 1:10–14 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. …
Phenomena of Fire from Heaven Upon the Cities of the Plain
- Genesis 19:24–25 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. …
Phenomena of Plagues of Hail, and Thunder, and Lightning in Egypt
- Exodus 9:22–29 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt— on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.” …
- Psalm 78:17–23 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. …
Phenomena of Rain Confuses the Philistine Army
- 1 Samuel 7:10 As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was offering up the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
Phenomena of Rain in Answer to Samuel's Prayer
- 1 Samuel 12:16–18 Now, therefore, present yourselves and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes. …
Phenomena of Rain, the Formation of
- Psalm 135:6–7 The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths. …
Phenomena of Stars in Their Courses Fought Against Sisera
- Judges 5:20 From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
Phenomena of Stones from Heaven
- 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.
Phenomena of Sun Stood Still
- Joshua 10:12–13 On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.” …
Phenomena of That Brought the Quails
- Numbers 11:31–32 Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp. …
- Psalm 78:26–28 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might. …
Phenomena of The Autumnal Weather on the Mediterranean
- Acts 27:9–14 By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them, …
- Acts 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
Phenomena of The Deluge
- Genesis 7:8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Phenomena of The East Wind
- Psalm 48:7 With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Phenomena of The East Wind That Divided the Red Sea
- Exodus 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Phenomena of The Plague of Darkness
- Exodus 10:22–23 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days. …
Phenomena of The Whirlwind Which Carried Elijah to Heaven
- 2 Kings 2:1 Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
- 2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
Phenomena of The Wind Under God's Control
- Psalm 107:25 For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
Phenomena of Wind Destroyed Job's Children
- Job 1:18–19 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, …
Symbolical used in the Revelation of John
- Revelation 6:12–14 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, …
- Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
- Revelation 8:3–12 Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. …
- Revelation 9:1–2 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. …
- Revelation 9:17–19 Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur. …
- Revelation 10:1–6 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire. …
- Revelation 11:6 These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
- Revelation 12:1–4 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. …
- Revelation 12:7–9 Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. …
- Revelation 14:1 Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- Revelation 15:1–4 Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed. …
- Revelation 16:8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
- Revelation 16:17–21 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!” …
- Revelation 19:11–18 Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. …
- Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
- Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.