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Rain
Nave’s Topical Bible, 1897 · source
- Forty days of, at the time of the great flood of Noah Genesis 7:4Genesis 7:10–12Genesis 7:17–24
- The plague of, upon Egypt Exodus 9:22–26Exodus 9:33Exodus 9:34
- Miraculously caused
- By Samuel 1 Samuel 12:16–19
- By Elijah 1 Kings 18:41–45
- David delivered by 2 Samuel 5:17–21Isaiah 28:21
- North wind unfavorable to Proverbs 25:23
- Withheld as judgment Deuteronomy 11:17Deuteronomy 28:241 Kings 8:352 Chronicles 7:13Jeremiah 3:3Amos 4:7Zechariah 14:17
- The earth will never again be destroyed by Genesis 9:8–17
- Sent by God Deuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 11:14Job 37:6Isaiah 30:23Jeremiah 5:24Jeremiah 14:22
- Contingent upon obedience Leviticus 26:3Leviticus 26:4Deuteronomy 11:13Deuteronomy 11:14
- Prayer for 1 Kings 8:351 Kings 8:362 Chronicles 6:262 Chronicles 6:27
- Answer to prayer for, promised 2 Chronicles 7:132 Chronicles 7:14Zechariah 10:1
- Withheld, in answer to prayer James 5:17James 5:18
- Rainy season in Palestine is in the ninth month, corresponding to December Ezra 10:9Ezra 10:13
- See METEOROLOGY
- FIGURATIVE Psalms 72:6