Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm and trumpet-blast, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not a word more should be added; for they did not try to bear the order, "Even if a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death," read more.
and so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am terrified and terror-stricken!" But you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless hosts of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks a better message than even Abel's did.






for they did not try to bear the order, "Even if a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death," Verse ConceptsTouching Holy ThingsInstructions About StoningUnbearable Things








When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsGod Appearing In FireGod Led Them Through The Wilderness


This is the one who in the congregation in the desert went between the angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and our forefathers, who also received, to be handed down to you, utterances that still live. Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsMoses, Significance OfAngels, Important EventsLawgiversIsrael In The WildernessAngels Giving The LawAngels As MediatorsThe Law Given Through Moses














They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated -- Verse ConceptsFleecesDeath penaltyMartyrdom Of The SaintsStoningMartyrdom, Methods OfPeople Cut In PiecesAnimal SkinsFoul ClothesHalf Of BodiesPeople Actually Doing Evil












and trumpet-blast, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not a word more should be added; Verse ConceptsTrumpets For SignallingGod Being SilentGod Speaking