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Rain as a natural phenomenon

2 Samuel 21:10; 1 Kings 18:41,44; Ezra 10:9; Ecclesiastes 11:3; Isaiah 4:6; Luke 12:54; Hebrews 6:7

Associated with cold weather

Acts 28:2

God controls the rain

Genesis 2:5; Jeremiah 51:16 See also 1 Kings 18:1; Job 5:10; Job 28:26; Job 37:6; Job 38:25; Psalm 68:8; Psalm 135:7; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 14:22

God's bounty in giving rain to Israel

Deuteronomy 28:12 See also Leviticus 26:4; Deuteronomy 11:14

God's bounty in giving rain to all humanity

Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:17 See also Zechariah 10:1

God's punishment through rain and flood

Genesis 7:4 See also Exodus 9:33-34; 1 Samuel 12:17-18; Ezekiel 38:22

God's punishment through drought

Deuteronomy 11:17 See also 1 Kings 8:35-36 pp 2 Chronicles 6:26-27; 1 Kings 17:1; Isaiah 5:6; Amos 4:7; Zechariah 14:17-18; James 5:17; Revelation 11:6

Rain as a symbol of spiritual truth

God's power to save

Isaiah 55:10-11 See also 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 45:8

God's powerful anger

Ezekiel 13:11-13 See also 2 Samuel 22:12; Job 20:23; Isaiah 28:2

Power of circumstances

Matthew 7:27 See also Matthew 7:25

Rain in other imagery

Ability to satisfy:

Deuteronomy 32:2; Job 29:23; Psalm 72:6; Proverbs 16:15

Clouds without rain: uselessness:

Proverbs 25:14; Jude 12 Proverbs 25:23; Proverbs 26:1

The rainbow

Genesis 9:14-16 a sign of God's covenant; Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 4:3; Revelation 10:1

See also

1050  God, goodness of
1325  God, the Creator
4272  sky
4293  water
4816  drought, physical
4819  dryness
4838  lightning
4845  rainbow
4851  storm
4854  weather, God's sovereignty
5454  power, God's saving
7227  flood, the