Smoke

Smoke associated with the divine presence

Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 6:4 See also Exodus 20:18; Psalm 104:32, Psalm 144:5; Isaiah 4:5; Revelation 15:8

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

Smoke associated with divine judgment

Isaiah 9:18–19 See also Genesis 15:17, Genesis 19:28 the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; 2 Samuel 22:9 parallel Psalm 18:8; Isaiah 30:27, Isaiah 34:10; Joel 2:30; Nahum 2:13; Acts 2:19; Revelation 14:11, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:18, Revelation 19:3

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke. By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

Smoke associated with the offering of incense

Leviticus 16:13 See also Revelation 8:4

He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.

Smoke associated with warfare

Joshua 8:20–21; Judges 20:38, Judges 20:40

Smoke used poetically

For something insubstantial

Hosea 13:3 See also Psalm 37:20, Psalm 68:2; Isaiah 51:6

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

In various other ways

Proverbs 10:26 See also Job 41:20; Psalm 119:83; Song of Solomon 3:6; Isaiah 14:31, Isaiah 65:5; Revelation 9:2–3, Revelation 9:17–18

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.