Galatians 4:25
Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
Cross References
Judges 5:5The mountains flowed down at the presence of the LORD, even yon Sinai at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Acts 1:11which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, which was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.
Hebrews 12:18For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:22-31
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem… Read the whole commentary →