Deut 28:24

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make the rain.

This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain.

These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.

Deut 28:12; Gen 19:24; Job 18:15-21; Isa 5:24; Amos 4:11