Hebrews 12:19

to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.

Majority Standard Bible

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

18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to blackness, darkness, and storm;

20For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

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Cross References

Exodus 20:1And God spoke all these words:

Deuteronomy 4:12And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Deuteronomy 5:3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Deuteronomy 18:16This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”

1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

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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