Genesis 15:17

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹  passed between the animal parts. ² 

Genesis 19:28

19:28 He looked out toward ³  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. ⁴  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. ⁵ 

Psalms 144:5

144:5 O Lord, make the sky sink ⁶  and come down! ⁷ 

Touch the mountains and make them smolder! ⁸ 

Revelation 15:8

15:8 and the temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from his power. Thus ⁹  no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.

¹ sn A smoking pot with a flaming torch. These same implements were used in Mesopotamian rituals designed to ward off evil (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 113-14).

² tn Heb “these pieces.”

³ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

⁴ tn Or “all the land of the plain”; Heb “and all the face of the land of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

⁵ tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “to [cause to] bend; to [cause to] bow down.” For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden. Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to sink down as he descends in the storm. See Ps 18:9.

⁷ tn Heb “so you might come down.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The same type of construction is utilized in v. 6.

⁸ tn Heb “so they might smolder.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose after the preceding imperative.

⁹ tn Grk “power, and no one.” A new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “thus” to indicate the implied result of the temple being filled with smoke.