Hebrews 12:29
For, indeed, Eloheinu is a consuming Eish. + 12:29 Dt 4:24; 9:3; Isa 33:14
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For our God is a consuming fire.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17And the sight of the Kevod Hashem was like eish ochelet (devouring fire) on the top of HaHar in the eyes of the Bnei Yisroel.
Numbers 16:35And there came out from Hashem an eish, and consumed the 250 men that offered ketoret.
Deuteronomy 9:3Understand therefore this day, that Hashem Eloheicha is He which goeth over before thee; as a consuming eish He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before thy face; so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as Hashem hath said unto thee.
Psalms 97:3Eish goeth before Him, 1 and burneth up His enemies on every side. 1
Daniel 7:9I was beholding until 1 kisot (thrones) were placed, 1 and the Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days), + 7:9 i.e., Hashem did sit, 1 whose raiment was like white snow, 1 and the hair of His rosh like pure wool; 1 His kes (throne) was like the fiery flames, 1 and its wheels like burning eish. 1
Hebrews 10:27But only a terrible expectation of Din and Mishpat and of a blazing EISH TZARECHA TOKHLEM + 10:27 Isa 26:11 (Fire that will consume the enemies of Hashem).
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 →