Exodus 19:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

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  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind, 19 And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:
  • Heb 12:21 : 21 And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.
  • Rev 4:1 : 1 After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come.
  • Rev 4:5 : 5 And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;
  • Rev 8:5 : 5 And the angel took the vessel; and he made it full of the fire of the altar, and sent it down on the earth: and there came thunders and voices and flames and a shaking of the earth.
  • Rev 11:19 : 19 And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.
  • Ps 77:18 : 18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.
  • Exod 19:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.
  • Ps 18:11-14 : 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire. 13 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire. 14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters. 4 The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound. 5 By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord. 6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox. 7 At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen. 8 At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh. 9 At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory. 10 The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever. 11 The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.
  • Exod 9:23 : 23 And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 9:28-29 : 28 Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer. 29 And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.
  • Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord;
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves. 18 So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.
  • 2 Chr 5:14 : 14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.
  • Job 37:1-5 : 1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place. 2 Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth. 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. 4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding. 5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
  • Job 38:25 : 25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
  • Ps 97:4 : 4 His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
  • Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

    18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

    19 And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

    20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

    21 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • 82%

    18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

    19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

    20 And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.

    21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

  • Exod 19:9-15
    7 verses
    82%

    9 And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.

    10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

    11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.

    12 And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

    13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

    14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

    15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

  • Exod 19:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.

    2 And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.

    3 And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:

  • 76%

    15 And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.

    16 And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

    17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

    18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

  • 11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.

    3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

  • 23 And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,

  • Heb 12:18-21
    4 verses
    73%

    18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

    19 And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

    20 For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

    21 And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.

  • 73%

    23 And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.

    24 And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

  • 31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • 1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 14:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

    14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • 5 And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord.

  • 3 Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.

  • 44 And the Lord said to Moses,

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    10 And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 10 And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.

  • 42 Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes.

  • 15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.

  • 34 And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.

  • 40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

  • 11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.