2 Samuel 22:9
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
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Compare
- BSB
- Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
- KJV
- There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- WEB
- Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
- ASV
- There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
- DARBY
- There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals burned forth from it.
- BLB
- Smoke went up from His nostrils, and consuming fire from His mouth; glowing coals were kindled by it.
- ÅB
- Det steg røyk opp av hans nese, og fortærende ild fra hans munn; glør brant ut av ham.
- OTB
- Røyk steg opp fra Hans nesebor,
Og ild fra Hans munn fortærte;
Glør ble tent av den. - B1930
- Det steg røk op av hans nese, og fortærende ild fra hans munn; glør brente ut av ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Read in contextPsalms 18:15
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Read in contextJob 41:20–21
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:14
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Read in contextExodus 24:17
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Read in contextPsalms 18:8
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Read in contextExodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
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