Galatians 4:25

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Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is like Jerusalem today because she and her children are slaves.

Cross References

Psalm 68:17

The chariots of God are twenty thousand in number, thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them. ⌞The God of⌟ Sinai is in his holy place.

Psalm 68:8

the earth quaked and the sky poured in the presence of the God of Sinai, in the presence of the God of Israel.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you were not willing!

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you were not willing!

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground and kill your people. One stone will not be left on top of another, because you didn’t recognize the time when God came to help you.”

Acts 1:11

They asked, “Why are you men from Galilee standing here looking at the sky? Jesus, who was taken from you to heaven, will come back in the same way that you saw him go to heaven.”

Galatians 1:17

I didn’t even go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.

Galatians 4:24

I’m going to use these historical events as an illustration. The women illustrate two arrangements. The one woman, Hagar, is the arrangement made on Mount Sinai. Her children are born into slavery.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said, “The Lord came from Sinai. For his people he rose from Seir ⌞like the sun⌟. He appeared like sunshine from Mount Paran. He came with tens of thousands of holy ones. On his right was a raging fire for them.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that you can feel, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, to a storm,

Judges 5:5

and the mountains shook in the presence of the Lord God of Sinai, in the presence of the Lord God of Israel.