Deuteronomy 5:26

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Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

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  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.
  • Josh 3:10 : 10 Joshua continued,“This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  • Ps 42:2 : 2 I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.“For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.
  • Matt 26:63 : 63 But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him,“I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

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  • Deut 5:22-25
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    22The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    23Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

    24You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

    25But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!

  • Deut 4:32-34
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    32The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

    33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

    34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • Deut 5:27-28
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    27You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

    28When the LORD heard you speaking to me, he said to me,“I have heard what these people have said to you– they have spoken well.

  • Deut 5:2-5
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    2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

    3He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

    4The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

    5(I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

  • Deut 4:11-12
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    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

    12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.

  • Deut 4:36
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    36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

  • Exod 20:18-19
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    18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

  • Deut 18:16-17
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    16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

    17The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good.

  • Num 17:12-13
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    71%

    12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

    13(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”

  • Deut 4:15
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    15The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

  • Heb 12:19
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    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

  • Heb 12:29
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    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Num 12:2
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    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

  • Deut 1:19
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    19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • Deut 1:6
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    6Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

  • Exod 20:22
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    22The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

  • Acts 7:38
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    38This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Exod 24:17
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    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

  • Isa 33:14
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    14Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say,‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’

  • Num 14:28
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    28Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

  • 2 Pet 1:18
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    18When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

  • Num 14:22
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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

  • Exod 19:8
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

  • Deut 6:24
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    24The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

  • Exod 24:3
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    3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”

  • Josh 2:11
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    11When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. For the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

  • Deut 4:7
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    7In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Num 14:14
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    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Exod 20:1
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    1The Decalogue God spoke all these words:

  • Exod 19:19
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    19When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.

  • Josh 24:17
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    17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

  • Heb 12:25
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    25Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

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    7The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire.

  • Deut 30:13
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    13And it is not across the sea, as though one must say,“Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

  • Exod 19:16
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    16On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.