Hebrews 12:20

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 19:12-13 : 12 You 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! 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 19:16 : 16 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.
  • 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.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

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  • Heb 12:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Heb 12:21
    79%

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

  • Exod 19:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    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.”

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    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.”

  • Exod 19:21-24
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

    22Let the priests also, who approach the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break through against them.”

    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.”

  • Exod 34:3
    73%

    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.”

  • Num 4:20
    71%

    20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

  • Deut 18:16
    71%

    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.”

  • Num 14:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

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

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    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 9:8
    70%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 17:4
    70%

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • Heb 3:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

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

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    69%

    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

  • Deut 1:43
    69%

    43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • Num 14:22
    69%

    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,

  • Deut 5:22
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 24:17
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 32:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    20He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

  • Heb 10:28
    69%

    28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

  • Num 18:22
    69%

    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Num 16:21
    69%

    21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

  • Josh 22:18
    69%

    18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

  • Exod 33:5
    69%

    5For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    69%

    12This happened because they did not obey the LORD their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the LORD’s servant, had commanded.

  • Ps 78:40
    69%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • Lev 24:23
    68%

    23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 16:45
    68%

    45“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

  • Neh 9:18
    68%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Heb 12:25
    68%

    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?

  • Deut 9:22
    68%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Exod 32:8
    68%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”