Job 38:23

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which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

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  • Josh 10:11 : 11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the LORD threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died– in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.
  • Isa 30:30 : 30 The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.
  • Rev 16:21 : 21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people, but they blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it was so horrendous.
  • Exod 9:18 : 18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
  • Exod 9:24 : 24 Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
  • Job 36:13 : 13 The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.
  • Job 36:31 : 31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.
  • Ezek 13:11-13 : 11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out. 12 When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?” 13 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.
  • Matt 7:27 : 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”

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