Exodus 20:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Prove

His fear

General references

Deuteronomy 4:36

Deuteronomy 5:4

Bible References

Prove

And he will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will show him a tree, and he will cast into the waters, and the waters will become sweet: then he set to him a law and judgment, and there he tried him.

And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I.

And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not

Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

His fear

And Abraham will say, For I said, Surely there is not the fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife.

So that thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, to watch all his laws and his commands which I am commanding thee, thou and thy son and thy son's son all the days of thy life; and so that thy days shall be prolonged.

And now, Israel, what does Jehovah thy God ask from thee but to fear Jehovah thy God, to go in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

And, now fear ye Jehovah and serve him in uprightness and in truth; and remove the gods which your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.

And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God.

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

Jehovah of armies, him shall ye consecrate; and he your fear, and he your terror.

General references

Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice to instruct thee: and upon earth he caused thee to see his great fire, and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.

Face to face Jehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire.