King James Version
Psalms 18:13 in the King James Version says “The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.”
Psalms 18:13 · KJV
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“also thundered”
H7481to tumble, i.e., be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger)
“in the heavens”
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 Highest”
H5945an elevation, i.e., (adjectively) lofty (comparatively); as title, the supreme
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