Revelation 8:7

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Cross-reference

Revelation 8:8 continues the trumpet series with a second judgment: a burning mountain thrown into the sea, echoing the pattern of the first trumpet.

Revelation 9:4 warns locusts not to harm grass — a direct contrast to the first trumpet burning a third of vegetation.

In Revelation 7:2, an angel commands not to harm the earth until servants are sealed — now the first trumpet begins that harm.

Revelation 16:21 has huge hailstones as a bowl judgment — echoing the hail and fire of the first trumpet.

In Revelation 9:15, the sixth trumpet also involves a third destruction — killing a third of mankind — sharing the proportional judgment pattern.

Ezekiel 13:13 speaks of hailstones in God's wrath to consume, a direct OT antecedent for the destructive hail in the trumpet judgment.

Ezekiel 38:22 describes God raining hailstones, fire, and blood on Gog — the same judgment imagery used here for the first trumpet.

Exodus 9:23-25 describes hail and fire mingled with blood — the same plague imagery used in the first trumpet.

Isaiah 32:19 predicts hail felling the forest, analogous to the first trumpet's burning of a third of the trees.

Isaiah 30:30 explicitly includes hailstones and devouring fire, closely mirroring the hail and fire thrown to earth in Revelation.

Isaiah 28:2 Allusion

Isaiah 28:2 uses hail as a metaphor for God's destructive judgment, similar to the hail and fire that burns a third of the earth.

Psalm 105:32 recalls the Egyptian plague of hail and lightning, a direct parallel to the hail and fire mixed with blood in Revelation.

Psalm 78:47 Allusion

Psalm 78:47 describes God destroying vines with hail, an OT plague that matches the burning of vegetation in the first trumpet.

Psalm 18:12 Allusion

Psalm 18:12 depicts God's theophany with hailstones and coals of fire, the same divine judgment imagery used in the first trumpet.

Ezekiel 13:13 mentions great hailstones in God's wrath—a direct parallel to the hail and fire judgment.

Isaiah 28:17 uses hail as an instrument of judgment to sweep away lies—connects to the hail in this trumpet.

Zechariah 13:8 Related theme

Zechariah 13:8 prophesies two-thirds cut off and one-third left—the fraction 'third' matches the destruction of a third of trees.