From Creation until Noah there was no rain:
Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Noah’s flood is recorded in Genesis 6-8
Rain is 1st mentioned in Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Question? Where did all the water go: IF there was a worldwide flood?
Answer: JOB 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. They are frozen in the Ice caps.
The next mention of Rain is in Exodus during the Plagues:
Exodus 9:18,23,33-34
And referring to Manna: Exodus 16:4
God promises rain for the crops in the promise land: Leviticus 26:4. Deuteronomy 11:11,14,
And if they disobey no rain: Deuteronomy 11:17
Rain when obedient, No rain when disobedient: Deuteronomy 28:12,24, 32:2
Samuel writes, rain is from God:
1 Samuel 12:17,18, 2 Samuel 1:21, 23:4, 1 Kings 8:35-36
Elijah withholds the rain: 1 Kings 17:1,7,14,
Elijah calls forth the rain: 1 Kings 18:1,41,44-45
The Lord withholds the wind and the rain: 2 Kings 3:17
Rain withheld, rain given: 2 Chronicles 6:26-27, 7:13
Ezra speaks of the great rain: Ezra 10: 9-10
Job writes about the rain: JOB 5:10, 20:23, 28:26, 29:23, 36:27, 37:6, 38:26,28
Psalms remind that Rain is from God, as a blessing and a punishment:
Psalm 11:6, 68:9, 72:6, 84:6, 105:32, 135:7, 147:8
There 5 references in Proverbs 16:15, 25:14,23, 26:1, 28:3
There are two comments in Ecclesiastes 11:3, 12:2
Song of Solomon 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Rain, a blessing and a punishment: Isaiah 4:6, 5:6, 30:23, 44:4, 55:10 Jeremiah 3:3, 5:24, 10:13, 14:4,22, 51:16 Ezekiel 1:28, 38:22
And on into Hosea 6:3, 10:12, Joel 2:23, Amos 4:7, Zechariah 10:1, 14:17
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