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Hebrews 12:20 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 12 · verse 20
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:Hebrews 12:20 · King James Version
Hebrews 12:20 in context
18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
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Key words (Strong's)
- commandeddiastellōto draw asunder, divide, distinguish, dispose, order, to open one s selfG1291 →
- mountainorosa mountainG3735 →
- throughkatatoxeuōto shoot down or thrust through with an arrowG2700 →
- endurepherōto carry, to carry some burden, to bear with one s self, to move by bearing move or, to…G5342 →
- stonedlithoboleōto kill by stoning, to stone, to pelt one with stonesG3036 →
- beastthērionan animal, a wild animal, wild beast, beast, metaph. a brutal, bestial man, savage…G2342 →
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Here the apostle goes on to engage the professing Hebrews to perseverance in their Christian course and conflict, and not to relapse again into Judaism.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-29