Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 21:16 : 16 David looked up and saw the LORD’s angel standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
  • Lev 9:24 : 24 Then fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.
  • Ezek 1:28 : 28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.
  • Matt 17:6 : 6 When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Gen 17:3 : 3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,
  • Dan 10:9 : 9 I listened to his voice, and as I did so I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.
  • 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.
  • Ps 47:5 : 5 God has ascended his throne amid loud shouts; the LORD has ascended amid the blaring of ram’s horns.
  • Ezek 1:26 : 26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.