Verse 17

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 34:18-19 : 18 I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence. 19 I will punish the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the other people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf.
  • Judg 6:21 : 21 The LORD’s angel touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The LORD’s angel then disappeared.
  • 1 Chr 21:26 : 26 David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 The Lord Takes Delight in Zion“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”
  • Jer 11:4 : 4 Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time,“Obey me and carry out the terms of the covenant exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.
  • Judg 13:20 : 20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the LORD’s angel went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.
  • 2 Sam 22:9 : 9 Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.
  • Exod 3:2-3 : 2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked– and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed! 3 So Moses thought,“I will turn aside to see this amazing sight. Why does the bush not burn up?”
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.