Exodus 19:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, for the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like that of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD had come down on it with lightning. The smoke went up like the smoke of a hot furnace, while the whole mountain shook violently.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Then all of Mount Sinai was smoking. For the Lord had descended over it with fire, and smoke ascended from it, as from a furnace. And the entire mountain was terrible.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace. And all the mount was terrible.

Exodus 19:18 Cross References

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Genesis 15:17

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Psalm 104:32

who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.

Psalm 114:4

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Psalm 114:7

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Psalm 144:5

Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.

Psalm 18:9

He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 68:9

Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad; you restored your heritage when it languished;

Psalm 77:18

The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, yet your footprints were unseen.

Exodus 19:13

No hand shall touch them, but they shall be stoned or shot with arrows; whether animal or human being, they shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may go up on the mountain.”

Exodus 19:17

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 20:18

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance

Exodus 24:17

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the Israelites.

Exodus 3:2

There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.

Exodus 34:2

Be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

Isaiah 6:4

The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke.

Isaiah 64:1

O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

Jeremiah 4:24

I looked on the mountains, and they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low.

Zechariah 14:5

And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord’s mountain, for the valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal, and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him.

Matthew 24:7

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran. With him were myriads of holy ones, at his right, a host of his own.

Deuteronomy 4:36

From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 5:22

“These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:4

The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,

Hebrews 12:26

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.

Revelation 15:8

and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were ended.

Revelation 9:2

he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Judges 5:5

The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.