SNOW

 

SNOW 

  It was as usual dark but with fine wet snow misting my face as I fetched the newspaper while my one-a-day mug of coffee was brewing. Will the previous weather predication come true with 9-12 inches of white the biggest this winter? Yesterday upper office educators announced “Schools closed Monday due to weather.”, so the meteorologists must be correct, right?

  Now in the gray morning light it is visibly granular.

  Coffee is just about consumed. What to do now?

  My thoughts as a seasonal snow lover turned to fond memories . . . and the occasional frostbite.

  Then to wondering about “snow” in God’s Word.

  Utilizing e-Sword search I find the following in KJV:

Exo_4:6  And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

Num_12:10  And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

2Sa_23:20  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

2Ki_5:27  The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Job_6:16  Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Job_9:30  If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Job_24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Job_37:6  For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job_38:22  Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Psa_51:7  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psa_68:14  When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

Psa_147:16  He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Psa_148:8  Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

Pro_25:13  As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Pro_26:1  As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

Pro_31:21  She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

Isa_1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isa_55:10  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Jer_18:14  Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Lam_4:7  Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

Dan_7:9  I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

Mat_28:3  His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

Mar_9:3  And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

Rev_1:14  His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

  Reading the verses we see what beyond and above “snow”? For one thing, not the clouding but the clarifying of our vision.

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