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18 Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.(A)

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The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)

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Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
    touch the mountains so that they smoke.(A)

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and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were ended.(A)

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There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.(A)

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24 I looked on the mountains, and they were quaking,
    and all the hills moved to and fro.(A)

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O God, when you went out before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness, Selah(A)
the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain
    at the presence of God, the God of Sinai,
    at the presence of God, the God of Israel.(B)

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28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.(A)

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32 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains and they smoke.(A)

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He said,

“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
    he shone forth from Mount Paran.
With him were myriads of holy ones,[b]
    at his right, a host of his own.[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33.2 Gk Syr Vg Compare Tg: Heb upon them
  2. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk Sam Syr Vg: MT He came from Ribeboth-kodesh,
  3. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

22 “These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.(A)

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17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the Israelites.(A)

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26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”(A)

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The pivots[a] on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke.

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  1. 6.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Solomon Dedicates the Temple

When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.(A) The priests could not enter the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord’s house. When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,

“For he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.”(B)

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Elijah Meets God at Horeb

11 He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,(A) 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.

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17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.(A)

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10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.10 Other ancient authorities read will not be found or will be burned up

18 You have not come to something[a] that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,(A)

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  1. 12.18 Other ancient authorities read a mountain

in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(A)

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For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines[a] and earthquakes in various places:(A)

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  1. 24.7 Other ancient authorities add and pestilences

And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord’s mountain,[a] for the valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal,[b] and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him.(A)

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  1. 14.5 Heb my mountains
  2. 14.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The mountains quake before him,
    and the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    the world and all who live in it.(A)

Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
    and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.(B)

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Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,(A)

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18 The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    your lightnings lit up the world;
    the earth trembled and shook.(A)

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