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Exodus 19:16
Exodus 19:16 is verse 16 of Exodus chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
King James Version
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
World English Bible
On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
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Exodus 19:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
15 “Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
18 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
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Exodus 9:23So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 9:28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
Exodus 9:29Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Exodus 20:18When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
1 Samuel 12:17Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Job 37:1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
Job 37:2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
Job 37:3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
Job 37:5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
Job 38:25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Psalms 18:12From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:14He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
Psalms 29:3The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
Psalms 29:4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
Psalms 29:5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalms 29:6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Psalms 29:7The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
Psalms 29:8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms 29:9The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Psalms 29:10The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
Psalms 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Psalms 77:18Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Psalms 97:4His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
Hebrews 12:19to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.
Revelation 4:5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
Revelation 8:5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
Revelation 11:19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
Exodus 19:9The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 5:14so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
Revelation 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Revelation 4:1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Hebrews 12:21The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”