Exodus 19:16

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On 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.

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  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
  • Heb 12:21 : 21 In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”
  • Rev 4:1 : 1 The Amazing Scene in Heaven After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said:“Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things.”
  • Rev 4:5 : 5 From the throne came out flashes of lightning and roaring and crashes of thunder. Seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God, were burning in front of the throne
  • Rev 8:5 : 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
  • Rev 11:19 : 19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
  • Ps 77:18 : 18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
  • Exod 19:9 : 9 The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All 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.
  • Ps 18:11-14 : 11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds. 12 From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals. 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted. 14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water. 4 The LORD’s shout is powerful, the LORD’s shout is majestic. 5 The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7 The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!” 10 The LORD sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the LORD sits enthroned as the eternal king. 11 The LORD gives his people strength; the LORD grants his people security.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 “May our God come and not be silent.” Consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.
  • Exod 9:23 : 23 When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 9:28-29 : 28 Pray to the LORD, for the mighty thunderings and hail are too much! I will release you and you will stay no longer.” 29 Moses said to him,“When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the LORD, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.
  • Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the LORD so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves.” 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.
  • 2 Chr 5:14 : 14 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.
  • Job 37:1-5 : 1 At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place. 2 Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth. 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth. 4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
  • Job 38:25 : 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,
  • Ps 97:4 : 4 His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
  • Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

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  • Exod 19:17-21
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    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

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

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

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

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 20:18-21
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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.”

    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

  • Exod 19:9-15
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    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

    10The LORD said to Moses,“Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes

    11and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

    13No hand will touch him– but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”

    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

    15He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.”

  • Exod 19:1-3
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    77%

    1Israel at Sinai In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the desert of Sinai.

    2After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Exod 24:15-18
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    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

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

    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.

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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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.

  • Exod 34:2-3
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    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Deut 5:23
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    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.

  • Heb 12:18-21
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    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

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

    20For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • Exod 19:23-24
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    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • 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 19:7
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    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Lev 19:1
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    1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 32:19
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    19When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

  • Num 14:13-14
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

    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.

  • Lev 9:5
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    5So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD.

  • 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,”

  • Num 16:44
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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 16:10-11
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    10As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,

    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 33:10
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    10When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

  • Num 16:42
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    42When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • Num 9:15
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    15The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

  • Num 10:34
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    34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • Num 14:40
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    40And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying,“Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD commanded, for we have sinned.”

  • Deut 9:11
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    11Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.