Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 144:5 : 5 O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!
  • Judg 5:5 : 5 The mountains trembled before the LORD, the God of Sinai; before the LORD God of Israel.
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 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.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 and the temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from his power. Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.
  • Jer 4:24 : 24 I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
  • 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!
  • Ps 104:32 : 32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.
  • Isa 6:4 : 4 The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.
  • 2 Chr 7:1-3 : 1 Solomon Dedicates the Temple When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the LORD’s splendor filled the temple. 2 The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple. 3 When 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!”
  • Ps 68:7-8 : 7 O God, when you lead your people into battle, when you march through the wastelands,(Selah) 8 the earth shakes, yes, the heavens pour down rain before God, the God of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
  • Gen 15:17 : 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.
  • Heb 12:26 : 26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.
  • Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste. 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.
  • Zech 14:5 : 5 Then you will escape through my mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. Indeed, you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come with all his holy ones with him.
  • Matt 24:7 : 7 For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 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
  • Ps 77:18 : 18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
  • 1 Kgs 19:11-12 : 11 The LORD said,“Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Look, the LORD is ready to pass by.”A very powerful wind went before the LORD, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.
  • Ps 114:7 : 7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord– before the God of Jacob,
  • Exod 19:13 : 13 No 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.”
  • 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.
  • Deut 4:11-12 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud. 12 Then 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 5:22 : 22 The 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.
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 He said:A Historical Review The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.