Hebrews 12:19

or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

In Context

18But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,

20For they could not bear what was said, and so, if even a beast would have touched the mountain, it would have been stoned.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:1And the Lord spoke all these words:

Deuteronomy 4:12And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you did not see any form at all.

Deuteronomy 5:3He did not make the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are alive and in the present time.

Deuteronomy 18:16just as you petitioned of the Lord your God at Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and you said: ‘Let me no longer hear the voice of the Lord my God, and let me no longer see this very great fire, lest I die.’

1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:19-29

Nature of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that… Read the whole commentary →

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