Hebrews 12:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they could not bear what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."

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  • Exod 19:12-13 : 12 And you shall set boundaries for the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death: 13 No hand shall touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.
  • Exod 19:16 : 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,

    19And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:

  • Heb 12:21
    79%

    21And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling."

  • Exod 19:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12And you shall set boundaries for the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death:

    13No hand shall touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18And all the people saw the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

    19Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

  • Exod 19:21-24
    4 verses
    74%

    21And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

    22And let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.

    23And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you have warned us, saying, Set boundaries about the mount, and sanctify it.

    24And the LORD said to him, Away, get down, and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you, but let not the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.

  • Exod 34:3
    73%

    3No one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds graze in front of that mountain.

  • Num 4:20
    71%

    20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

  • Deut 18:16
    71%

    16According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.

  • Num 14:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

    11And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

    17And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount.

    18And Mount Sinai was all in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

    38of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

    12And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; only you heard a voice.

  • Deut 9:8
    70%

    8Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 17:4
    70%

    4And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

  • Heb 3:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

    19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    69%

    5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Deut 1:43
    69%

    43So I spoke to you; and you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the hill.

  • Num 14:22
    69%

    22Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

  • Deut 5:22
    69%

    22These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a great voice: and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and delivered them to me.

  • Exod 24:17
    69%

    17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 32:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19As soon as he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

    20He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

  • Heb 10:28
    69%

    28Anyone who despised Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

  • Num 18:22
    69%

    22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Num 16:21
    69%

    21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

  • Josh 22:18
    69%

    18But that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? And it will be, seeing you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • Exod 33:5
    69%

    5For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into your midst in a moment and consume you: therefore now take off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.'

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    69%

    12because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.

  • Ps 78:40
    69%

    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • Lev 24:23
    68%

    23And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 16:45
    68%

    45Get up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

  • Neh 9:18
    68%

    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations,

  • Heb 12:25
    68%

    25See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

  • Deut 9:22
    68%

    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Exod 32:8
    68%

    8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"