Rain
68 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
62 sections
- (Destructive) of a Poor Man Oppressing the Poor
- (Destructive) of God's Judgments
- Answer to Prayer For, Promised
- Canaan Abundantly Supplied With
- Contingent Upon Obedience
- David Delivered By
- Designed For: Making Fruitful the Earth
- Designed For: Refreshing the Earth
- Designed For: Replenishing the Springs and Fountains of the Earth
- Divided Into: Great
- Divided Into: Overflowing
- Divided Into: Plentiful
- Divided Into: Small
- Divided Into: Sweeping
- Extraordinary: After Long Drought in Ahab's Reign
- Extraordinary: After the Captivity
- Extraordinary: During Wheat Harvest in the Days of Samuel
- Extraordinary: Plague of, Upon Egypt
- Extraordinary: Time of the Flood
- Figurative
- Forty Days of, at the Time of the Great Flood of Noah
- Frequently Withheld on Account of Iniquity
- God Causes, to Come Down
- God Exhibits Goodness in Giving
- God Exhibits Greatness in Giving
- God Gives
- God Made a Decree For
- God Prepares
- God Sends Upon the Evil and Good
- God should be Feared on Account of
- God should be Praised For
- Impotence of Idols Exhibited in not Being Able to Give
- Miraculously Caused by Elijah
- Miraculously Caused by Samuel
- North Wind Unfavorable To
- Not Sent Upon the Earth Immediately After Creation
- Occasioned by the Condensing of the Clouds
- Often Destroyed Houses
- Often Impeded Travelling in the East
- Often Succeeded by Heat and Sunshine
- Prayer For
- Promised in Due Season to the Obedient
- Rainy Season in Palestine is in the Ninth Month, Corresponding to December
- Rarely Falls in Egypt
- Sent by God
- Storm and Tempest often With
- The Appearance of a Cloud from the West Indicated
- The Earth Will Never Again be Destroyed By
- The Former, After Harvest, to Prepare for Sowing
- The Lack of Causes the Earth to Open
- The Lack of Dries up Springs and Fountains
- The Lack of Occasions Famine
- The Lack of Removed by Prayer
- The Latter, Before Harvest
- The North Wind Drives Away
- The Plague of, Upon Egypt
- The Rainbow often Appears During
- Thunder and Lightning often With
- Unusual in Harvest Time
- Withheld As Judgment
- Withheld for Three Years and Six Months in the Days of Elijah
- Withheld, in Answer to Prayer
(Destructive) of a Poor Man Oppressing the Poor
- Proverbs 28:3 A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
(Destructive) of God's Judgments
- Job 20:23 When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
- Psalm 11:6 On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Ezekiel 38:22 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Answer to Prayer For, Promised
- 2 Chronicles 7:13–14 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, …
- Zechariah 10:1 Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
Canaan Abundantly Supplied With
- Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Contingent Upon Obedience
- Leviticus 26:3–4 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, …
- Deuteronomy 11:13–14 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, …
David Delivered By
- 2 Samuel 5:17–21 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went down to the stronghold. …
- Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
Designed For: Making Fruitful the Earth
- Hebrews 6:7 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
Designed For: Refreshing the Earth
- Psalm 68:9 You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
- Psalm 72:6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Designed For: Replenishing the Springs and Fountains of the Earth
- Psalm 104:8 the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them —
Divided Into: Great
- Ezra 10:9 So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of …
Divided Into: Overflowing
- Ezekiel 38:22 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Divided Into: Plentiful
- Psalm 68:9 You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
Divided Into: Small
- Job 37:6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
Divided Into: Sweeping
- Proverbs 28:3 A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
Extraordinary: After Long Drought in Ahab's Reign
- 1 Kings 18:45 Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
Extraordinary: After the Captivity
- Ezra 10:9 So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of …
- Ezra 10:13 But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.
Extraordinary: During Wheat Harvest in the Days of Samuel
- 1 Samuel 12:17–18 Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.” …
Extraordinary: Plague of, Upon Egypt
- Exodus 9:18 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.
- Exodus 9:23 So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
Extraordinary: Time of the Flood
- Genesis 7:4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- Genesis 7:12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Figurative
- Psalm 72:6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Forty Days of, at the Time of the Great Flood of Noah
- Genesis 7:4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- Genesis 7:10–12 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. …
- Genesis 7:17–24 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. …
Frequently Withheld on Account of Iniquity
- Deuteronomy 11:17 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
God Causes, to Come Down
- Joel 2:23 Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
God Exhibits Goodness in Giving
- Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
God Exhibits Greatness in Giving
- Job 36:26–27 Indeed, God is great — beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable. …
God Gives
- Job 5:10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
God Made a Decree For
- Job 28:26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
God Prepares
- Psalm 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
God Sends Upon the Evil and Good
- Matthew 5:45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
God should be Feared on Account of
- Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
God should be Praised For
- Psalm 147:7–8 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God, …
Impotence of Idols Exhibited in not Being Able to Give
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Miraculously Caused by Elijah
- 1 Kings 18:41–45 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” …
Miraculously Caused by Samuel
- 1 Samuel 12:16–19 Now, therefore, present yourselves and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes. …
North Wind Unfavorable To
- Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
Not Sent Upon the Earth Immediately After Creation
- Genesis 2:5 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.
Occasioned by the Condensing of the Clouds
- Job 36:27–28 For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, …
- Psalm 77:17 The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
- 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.
Often Destroyed Houses
- Ezekiel 13:13–15 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury. …
- Matthew 7:27 The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell— and great was its collapse!”
Often Impeded Travelling in the East
- 1 Kings 18:44 On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
- Isaiah 4:6 a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
Often Succeeded by Heat and Sunshine
- 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- Isaiah 18:4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Prayer For
- 1 Kings 8:35–36 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, …
- 2 Chronicles 6:26–27 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, …
Promised in Due Season to the Obedient
- Leviticus 26:4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 11:14 then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
- Ezekiel 34:26–27 I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season— showers of blessing. …
Rainy Season in Palestine is in the Ninth Month, Corresponding to December
- Ezra 10:9 So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of …
- Ezra 10:13 But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.
Rarely Falls in Egypt
- Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
- Zechariah 14:18 And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Sent by God
- Deuteronomy 11:13–14 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, …
- Job 37:6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
- Isaiah 30:23 Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Storm and Tempest often With
- Matthew 7:25 The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- Matthew 7:27 The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell— and great was its collapse!”
The Appearance of a Cloud from the West Indicated
- 1 Kings 18:44 On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
- Luke 12:54 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.
The Earth Will Never Again be Destroyed By
- Genesis 9:8–17 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, …
The Former, After Harvest, to Prepare for Sowing
- Deuteronomy 11:14 then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
- Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
The Lack of Causes the Earth to Open
- Job 29:23 They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
- Jeremiah 14:4 The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
The Lack of Dries up Springs and Fountains
- 1 Kings 17:7 Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
The Lack of Occasions Famine
- 1 Kings 18:1–2 After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.” …
The Lack of Removed by Prayer
- 1 Kings 8:35–36 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, …
- James 5:18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
The Latter, Before Harvest
- Joel 2:23 Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Zechariah 10:1 Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
The North Wind Drives Away
- Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
The Plague of, Upon Egypt
- Exodus 9:22–26 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.” …
- Exodus 9:33–34 Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. …
The Rainbow often Appears During
- Genesis 9:14 Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
- Ezekiel 1:28 The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
Thunder and Lightning often With
- Psalm 135:7 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.
Unusual in Harvest Time
- Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
Withheld As Judgment
- Deuteronomy 11:17 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- 1 Kings 8:35 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- 2 Chronicles 7:13 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
- Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- Zechariah 14:17 And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
Withheld for Three Years and Six Months in the Days of Elijah
- 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- James 5:17 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.
Withheld, in Answer to Prayer
- 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. …
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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.