Galatians 4:25

New Century Version

She is like Mount Sinai in Arabia and is a picture of the earthly city of Jerusalem. This city and its people are slaves to the law.

Cross References

Psalm 68:17

God comes with millions of chariots; the Lord comes from Mount Sinai to his holy place.

Psalm 68:8

The ground shook and the sky poured down rain before God, the God of Mount Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone to death those who are sent to you. Many times I wanted to gather your people as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not let me.

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone to death those who are sent to you. Many times I wanted to gather your people as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me.

Luke 19:44

They will destroy you and all your people, and not one stone will be left on another. All this will happen because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you.”

Acts 1:11

They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking into the sky? Jesus, whom you saw taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go.”

Galatians 1:17

I did not go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. But, without waiting, I went away to Arabia and later went back to Damascus.

Galatians 4:24

This story teaches something else: The two women are like the two agreements between God and his people. One agreement is the law that God made on Mount Sinai, and the people who are under this agreement are like slaves. The mother named Hagar is like that agreement.

Galatians 4:26

But the heavenly Jerusalem, which is above, is like the free woman. She is our mother.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said: “The Lord came from Mount Sinai and rose like the sun from Edom; he showed his greatness from Mount Paran. He came with thousands of angels from the southern mountains.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness, and storms.

Judges 5:5

The mountains shook before the Lord, the God of Mount Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel!