“He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.”
The continuing poetic description that smoke ascended from God's nostrils and fire from His mouth devoured and coals were kindled employs anthropomorphic imagery of divine wrath. The smoke and fire imagery suggests overwhelming destructive force emanating from God. The devouring suggests comprehensive destruction of enemies. This verse intensifies the portrait of divine judgment through escalating violent imagery.
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