Topic
Tempest
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 7:4ISBE
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
- Exodus 9:18ISBE
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
- 1 Kings 18:45ISBE
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
- Job 9:17ISBE
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- Job 21:18ISBE
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Psalms 107:29ISBE
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
- Isaiah 4:6ISBE
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4ISBE
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Isaiah 28:2ISBE
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 29:6ISBE
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
- Isaiah 30:30ISBE
And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
- Matthew 8:24ISBE
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
Show 3 more
- Mark 4:37 ISBE
- Luke 8:23 ISBE
- Acts 27:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 15 references
tem'-pest (ce`-arah, or se`-arah, "a whirlwind," zerem, "overflowing rain"; cheimon, thuella): Heavy storms of wind and rain are common in Palestine and the Mediterranean. The storms particularly mentioned in the Bible are:
(1) the 40 days' rain of ~the great flood of Noah (Ge 7:4);
(2) hail and rain as a plague in Egypt (Ex 9:18);
(3) the great rain after the drought and the contest of Elijah on Carmel (1Ki 18:45);
(4) the tempest on the sea in the story of Jonah (1:4);
(5) the storm on the Lake of Galilee when Jesus was awakened to calm the waves (Mt 8:24; Mr 4:37; Lu 8:23);
(6) the storm causing the shipwreck of Paul at Melita (Ac 27:18).
Frequent references are found to God's power over storm and use of the tempest in His anger: "He maketh the storm a calm" (Ps 107:29); He sends the "tempest of hail, a destroying storm" (Isa 28:2). See also Job 9:17; 21:18; Isa 30:30. Yahweh overwhelms His enemies as with a storm: "She shall be visited of Yahweh of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest" (Isa 29:6). Yahweh is a "refuge from the storm" (Isa 25:4; 4:6).
Alfred H. Joy
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.