Thematic Bible: Darkness, of God's inscrutability


Thematic Bible



And Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron [that] he should not enter at any time into the sanctuary {behind} the curtain {in front of} the atonement cover that [is] on the ark, so that he might not die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover. Verse ConceptsCurtainsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionArk Of The Covenant, FunctionAppearances Of God In OtAtonement, in OTDay Of AtonementDivine ManifestationsClouds, God's PresenceMost Holy PlaceTheophanyArk Of The Covenant, PurposeMercy SeatDesecrationGod's Shekinah GloryCovering The ArkDeath Due To God's PresenceGod AppearingThe Right TimePropitiatory [Mercy Seat]


And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was. Verse ConceptsStanding At A Distancedistance

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that [he] would dwell in the very thick cloud. Verse ConceptsGod's Dwelling

He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}. Verse ConceptsCurtainsCovering

For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind, and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged [that] not [another] word be spoken to them.