The Lord also thundered in the heavens, &c.— The former verse mentioned the lightning, with its effects: this gives us the report of the thunder, and the increasing storm of hail and fire which attended it; and the omission of the hail and fire after the thunder, would have made it a sort of brutum fulmen, harmless thunder, and almost disarmed the artillery of the Almighty of its vengeance. I cannot, therefore, but wonder, that some learned men should imagine, that these words were here taken unnecessarily from the former verse by careless transcribers. It is indeed said, that the fire and hail in this last verse are omitted in the parallel place in Samuel. This is true; but then the whole description there differs from this in the Psalms; as the reader will see by comparing the two places together. See Chandler, and Kennicott's Dissert. vol. 1:

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