Thunder @ often referred to in Scripture Job:40:9; Psalms:77:18Psalms:104:7). James and John were called by our Lord "sons of thunder" Mark:3:17). In Job:39:19, instead of "thunder," as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version translates (ra'amah) by "quivering main" (marg., "shaking"). Thunder accompanied the giving of the law at Sinai Exodus:19:16). It was regarded as the voice of God Job:37:2; Psalms:18:13Psalms:81:7; comp. John:12:29). In answer to Samuel's prayer ( 1Samuel:12:17-18), God sent thunder, and "all the people greatly feared," for at such a season (the wheat-harvest) thunder and rain were almost unknown in Palestine.
THUNDER @ - 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. ( 1Samuel:12:17) Rain in harvest was deemed as extraordinary as snow in summer, Proverbs:26:1) and Jerome states that he had never witnessed it in the latter part of June or in July. Comm. on Amos:4:7) In the imaginative philosophy of the Hebrews, thunder was regarded as the voice of Jehovah, Job:37:2-4-5Job:40:9; Psalms:18:13Psalms:29:3-9; Isaiah:30:30-31) who dwelt behind the thunder-cloud. Psalms:81:7) Thunder was, to the mind of the Jew, the symbol of divine power Psalms:29:3) etc., and vengeance. ( 1Samuel:2:10; 2 Samuel 22:14)
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