Hebrews 12:19
And a trumpets peal,—and a sound of things spoken:—from which they who heard excused themselves, lest there should be added to them, a word;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18For ye have not approached—unto, a searching and scorching fire, and gloom, and mist, and tempest,
Cross References
Exodus 20:1And God spake all these words saying:—
Deuteronomy 4:12Then spake Yahweh unto you out of the midst of the fire,—a voice of words, ye were hearing, no form, were ye seeing, there was only a voice.
Deuteronomy 5:3not with our fathers did Yahweh solemnise this covenant,—but with us, ourselves—these here to-day, all of us living.
Deuteronomy 18:16according to all which thou didst ask of Yahweh thy God, in Horeb, in the day of the convocation saying,—Let me no further hearken unto the voice of Yahweh my God, and this great fire, let me not see any more lest I die.
1 Thessalonians 4:16Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief-messenger’s voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven,—and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, 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 →