Nehemiah 9:13

The Nation Confesses

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“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light the way for them
In which they were to go.
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“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
And You gave them fair ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
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“So You made known to them Your holy Sabbath,
And gave them commandments, statutes, and law,
Through Your servant Moses.

Mount Sinai

Sinai

Exodus 20:1

Then God spoke all these words:

Exodus 19:11

and be ready by the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai [in the cloud] in the sight of all the people.

Psalm 119:127-128

Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold,
Yes, more than refined gold.

Psalm 119:160

The sum of Your word is truth [the full meaning of all Your precepts],
And every one of Your righteous ordinances endures forever.

Exodus 19:16-20

So it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and flashes of lightning, and a thick cloud was on the mountain, and a very loud blast was sounded on a ram’s horn, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Exodus 20:22

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:8

Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:10-13

especially the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai), when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] all the days they live on the land, and so that they may teach their children.’

Deuteronomy 4:33

Did [any] people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and [still] live?

Deuteronomy 5:4

The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 5:22-26

“The Lord spoke these words with a great voice to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and He added no more. He wrote these commandments on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 10:12-13

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], to walk [that is, to live each and every day] in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul [your choices, your thoughts, your whole being],

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said,

“The Lord came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came from among ten thousand holy ones;
At His right hand was a flaming fire, a law, for them.

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the Lord is perfect (flawless), restoring and refreshing the soul;
The statutes of the Lord are reliable and trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalm 119:137

Tsadhe.
Righteous are You, O Lord,
And upright are Your judgments.

Isaiah 64:1

Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—

Isaiah 64:3

When You did awesome and amazing things which we did not expect,
You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence.

Ezekiel 20:11-13

I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.

Habakkuk 3:3

God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom),
And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).
His splendor and majesty covers the heavens
And the earth is full of His praise.

Romans 7:12-14

So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:16

Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent).

Hebrews 12:18-26

For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,