Dict: smith - THUNDER

smith:

THUNDER - T>@ - is hardly ever heard in Palestine form the middle of April to the middle of September; hence it was selected by Samuel as a striking expression of the divine displeasure toward the Israelites. ( kjv@1Samuel:12:17) Rain in harvest was deemed as extraordinary as snow in summer, kjv@Proverbs:26:1) and Jerome states that he had never witnessed it in the latter part of June or in July. Comm. on kjv@Amos:4:7) In the imaginative philosophy of the Hebrews, thunder was regarded as the voice of Jehovah, kjv@Job:37:2-4-5 kjv@Job:40:9; kjv@Psalms:18:13 kjv@Psalms:29:3-9; kjv@Isaiah:30:30-31) who dwelt behind the thunder-cloud. kjv@Psalms:81:7) Thunder was, to the mind of the Jew, the symbol of divine power kjv@Psalms:29:3) etc., and vengeance. ( kjv@1Samuel:2:10; 2 Samuel 22:14)