Hebrews 12:26

Back then God's voice shook the earth, but his promise is now: “One more time I'm going to shake not only the earth, but heaven too.”

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Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

In Context

25Make sure you don't reject the one who is speaking! If they didn't escape when they rejected God on earth, it is even more certain that we won't escape if we turn away from God who warns us from heaven!

27This expression, “one more time,” indicates that all creation that is shaken is removed so that everything that is not shaken may remain.

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Cross References

Psalms 114:6Mountains—why did you jump in fright? Hills—why did you startle like lambs?

Isaiah 13:13So I will shake the heavens and make the earth jump out of its place because of the fury of the Lord Almighty, at the time when his anger burns.

Habakkuk 3:10Mountains saw you and shook. Water poured down and swept by. The deep called out, lifting high its waves.

Haggai 2:22I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the nations' kingdoms. I will overthrow the chariots and their riders. The horses and riders will fall, and the men will kill each other by the sword.

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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