16 lest there be any afornicator or profane person like Esau, bwho for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was arejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
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18 For you have not come1 to athe mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and2 darkness and tempest,
19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it abegged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: a“And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned1 or shot with an arrow.”
21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, a“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Hebrews 12:18:
Blackness {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Fire {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Fire {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
For {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Have {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Tempest {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Darkness {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Other definition entries containing Hebrews 12:18:
High Place {I.S.B.E.}
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