King James Version
2 Samuel 22:14 in the King James Version says “The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.”
2 Samuel 22:14 · KJV
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. dark: Heb. binding of waters
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thundered”
H7481to tumble, i.e., be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger)
“from heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“and the most High”
H5945an elevation, i.e., (adjectively) lofty (comparatively); as title, the supreme
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