Bounded as it is by the hills of Palestine on both north and south, it would naturally become the arena of war between the lowlanders who trusted in their chariots , and the Israelite highlanders of the neighboring heights. To this cause mainly it owes its celebrity, as the battle - field of the world , which has, through its adoption into the language of Revelation, passed into an universal proverb . Temple of heaven . Omit of heaven . Every stone is therefore explanatory, and not in the text.
Hailstones are a symbol of divine wrath .