Heat

The heat of the sun

Isaiah 4:6 See also Genesis 8:22, Genesis 18:1, Genesis 31:40; Deuteronomy 28:22 Scorching heat was a curse for disobedience; 1 Samuel 11:11; 2 Samuel 4:5; Nehemiah 7:3; Job 24:19; Psalm 19:6; Isaiah 18:4, Isaiah 49:10 relief from heat in the promised restoration of Israel; Jeremiah 36:30; Hosea 13:5; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 20:12; Luke 12:55 Jesus Christ on interpreting the times; James 1:11; Revelation 7:16

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

Artificial heat

Acts 28:3 See also 1 Kings 19:6; Ezekiel 24:11; Daniel 3:22; Hosea 7:7; 1 Timothy 4:2

Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.

Bodily heat

Lamentations 5:10

Heat associated with action in battle

1 Samuel 14:22; Isaiah 21:15

Heat associated with anger

Isaiah 25:4–5 See also Exodus 11:8; 2 Kings 23:26; Psalm 39:3, Psalm 78:49; Ezekiel 38:18

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall, like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

Heat associated with judgment

2 Peter 3:12; Revelation 16:9

Heat referring to animals entering period of fertility

Genesis 30:41–42; Jeremiah 2:24