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 20:1God spoke all these words, saying,
• Ps 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
• Exod 19:11and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
• Deut 5:22–26Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
• Rom 7:12–14Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Ezek 20:11–13I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Deut 5:4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
• Ps 119:137You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
• Exod 19:16–20On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
• Isa 64:1Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
• Deut 4:33Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
• Deut 4:8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
• Exod 20:22Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
• Isa 64:3When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
• Hab 3:3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
• Deut 10:12–13Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Heb 12:18–26For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
• Deut 4:10–13the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
• Deut 33:2He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
• Rom 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

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