Deuteronomy 4:11

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You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the very heavens, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

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  • Deut 5:23 : 23 When you heard the voice from the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders came to me.
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom, and a storm, 19 to a trumpet blast or a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,
  • Exod 19:16-18 : 16 On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp trembled. 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
  • Exod 20:18-19 : 18 When all the people saw the thunder and the lightning flashes, and heard the sound of the trumpet, and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear and stood at a distance. 19 They said to Moses, 'Speak to us yourself, and we will listen. But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.'

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  • Deut 4:12-13
    2 verses
    85%

    12Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form—there was only a voice.

    13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to keep—the Ten Commandments—and He wrote them on two stone tablets.

  • Deut 5:22-24
    3 verses
    85%

    22These are the words the LORD spoke to your entire assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the profound darkness, with a loud voice. He added no more, and He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    23When you heard the voice from the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders came to me.

    24And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

  • Heb 12:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom, and a storm,

    19to a trumpet blast or a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,

    20because they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death."

    21The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."

  • Deut 5:4-5
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    80%

    4The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

    5At that time, I stood between the LORD and you to declare His word to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:

  • Deut 4:36
    78%

    36From heaven He caused you to hear His voice to teach you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

  • Exod 20:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    21The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

    22Then the LORD said to Moses, 'This is what you shall say to the children of Israel: You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.'

  • Exod 20:18
    77%

    18When all the people saw the thunder and the lightning flashes, and heard the sound of the trumpet, and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear and stood at a distance.

  • Deut 4:15
    77%

    15So be very careful for your own lives, because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    16On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

    17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

    18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

  • Exod 24:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

    16The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day, the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

    17The appearance of the LORD's glory was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the sight of the Israelites.

    18Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 4:10
    75%

    10Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and to teach them to their children.'

  • Deut 18:16
    74%

    16This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, or we will die.'

  • Deut 4:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33Has any people heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

    34Or has any god ever tried to take for himself a nation from within another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Be ready in the morning, and come up to Mount Sinai in the morning and stand before Me there on the top of the mountain.

    3No one may come up with you, and no one should be seen anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and herds must not graze near the mountain.

  • Deut 1:33
    73%

    33who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    72%

    13From the brightness of his presence, coals of fire blazed forth.

  • Exod 34:5
    72%

    5Then the LORD came down in a cloud, stood there with him, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

  • Deut 9:15
    72%

    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was ablaze with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

  • Josh 24:7
    72%

    7Your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians. He brought the sea over them and covered them. Your eyes witnessed what I did to Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Exod 19:9
    72%

    9The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may always believe in you.' Then Moses reported the people's words to the LORD.

  • Exod 19:20
    71%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Then the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Deut 9:8
    71%

    8Even at Horeb, you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Deut 5:26
    71%

    26For who among all flesh has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and lived?

  • Deut 1:19
    71%

    19Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Num 14:14
    71%

    14They will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are among these people, that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

  • Neh 9:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12By day, You led them with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light for the path they should follow.

    13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments.

  • Isa 64:3
    70%

    3From ancient times, no ear has heard, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

  • Deut 11:5
    70%

    5And what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place.

  • Acts 7:31
    70%

    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

  • Exod 10:22
    70%

    22So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and thick darkness covered all Egypt for three days.

  • Exod 19:12
    70%

    12Set boundaries for the people all around, saying, 'Be careful not to go up the mountain or touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain must surely be put to death.

  • Ps 18:12
    70%

    12He made darkness His covering, His canopy around Him—the dark rain clouds of the skies.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
    70%

    10He parted the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.