Nehemiah 9:13

At Sinai God came down, spoke from heaven, and gave just ordinances and good laws. It matters because God's law is a gracious gift, right and good.

Cross-references · 22

• Exod 20:1And God spake all these words, saying,
• Ps 119:160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Exod 19:11And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
• Deut 5:22–26These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
• Rom 7:12–14Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Ezek 20:11–13And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
• Ps 19:7–11The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
• Deut 5:4The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
• Ps 119:137Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
• Exod 19:16–20And 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.
• Isa 64:1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
• Deut 4:33Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
• Deut 4:8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• Exod 20:22And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
• Isa 64:3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
• Hab 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
• Deut 10:12–13And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
• Heb 12:18–26For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
• Deut 4:10–13Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
• Deut 33:2And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
• Rom 7:16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

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