231. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the _mountains_ were covered. Gen. vii. 17 to 20.
232. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the space of _three years and six months_. James v. 17.
233. And the Lord God formed man _of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life_; and man became _a living soul_. Gen. ii. 7.
234. And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the _rib_ which the Lord God had taken from man, _made he a woman_, and brought her unto the man. Gen. ii. 21, 2.
235. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven: and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his (Lot's) wife _looked back from behind him_ and she became a _pillar of salt_. Gen. xix. 24 to 26.
236. And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold, _a lad-der_ set upon the earth, and the top of it _reached to heaven_; and behold, _the angels of God ascending and descending_ on it. And behold, _the Lord stood above it,_ and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.
237. And It came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that behold, there appeared _a chariot of fire, and horses of fire_, and parted them both asunder; and _Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven_. 2 Kings ii. 11.
238. Now the Lord had prepared a _great fish_ (which Christ tells us in Matt. xii. 40, was _a whale_.) to swallow up Jonah. _And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights_. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God _out of the fish's belly_: and the Lord spake unto the fish, and _it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land._ Jonah i. 17, and ii. 1, 10.