Exodus 24:17

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Now 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 3:2 : 2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked– and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 From 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 19:18 : 18 Now 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.
  • Deut 4:24 : 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.
  • Ezek 1:27 : 27 I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,
  • Nah 1:6 : 6 No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.
  • Hab 3:4-5 : 4 His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power. 5 Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 24:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Exod 24:9-11
    3 verses
    78%

    9Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

    10and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

    11But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

  • Exod 24:18
    77%

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

  • Exod 16:10
    77%

    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,

  • Exod 40:38
    77%

    38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

  • Lev 9:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

    24Then fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

    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.

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Num 14:10
    76%

    10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

  • Acts 7:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

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

  • Deut 5:4
    75%

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

  • Num 14:14
    74%

    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 40:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • 2 Chr 7:3
    73%

    3When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the LORD’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying,“Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”

  • Exod 20:18
    73%

    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.

  • Num 20:6
    73%

    6Moses Responds So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

  • Deut 4:24
    73%

    24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

  • Ezek 8:4
    73%

    4Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

  • Judg 5:5
    73%

    5The mountains trembled before the LORD, the God of Sinai; before the LORD God of Israel.

  • Deut 5:24
    73%

    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.

  • Ezek 1:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

    28like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

  • Exod 3:2
    73%

    2The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked– and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

  • Heb 12:29
    73%

    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Num 16:42
    72%

    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.

  • Exod 19:20
    72%

    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.

  • Heb 12:21
    72%

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

  • Num 9:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    16This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

  • Deut 9:15
    72%

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

  • Deut 4:15
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    72%

    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

  • Ps 97:5
    72%

    5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of the whole earth.

  • Exod 24:1
    72%

    1The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

  • Lev 10:2
    72%

    2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

  • Exod 13:21
    71%

    21Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

  • Isa 10:17
    71%

    17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briers and his thorns in one day.

  • Lev 9:6
    71%

    6Then Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”

  • Exod 34:2
    71%

    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.