From Nave’s Topical Bible
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Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 13Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningDeuteronomy 4:11Deuteronomy 5:23Judges 5:5Psalms 97:5Psalms 104:32Psalms 144:5Isaiah 34:9Isaiah 34:10Isaiah 64:1–3Jeremiah 51:25Micah 1:4Nahum 1:5Nahum 1:6
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The passages, in Bible order (13)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:111 voice
And ye came near and stood under the mountain,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 5:23
And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:232 voices
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in Exo 20:18-21. Here it is important to call attention to the fact that it was on the entreaties of the people that Moses had taken on him to be the channel of communication between God and them. God approved Deu 5:28 the request of the people, because it showed a feeling of their own unworthiness to enter into direct communion with God. The terrors of Sinai had done their work; they had awakened the consciousness of sin.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Judges 5:5
The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Commentary on Judges 5:52 voices
(Judges 5:4-5) Lord, when you went out from Seir and passed through the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens and clouds poured down with water. It is said that the Lord went out from Seir and passed through Edom because the Edomites refused to receive his law, so he gave the law of Israel on Mount Sinai. The earth trembled, the heavens and clouds poured down with water. The earthquake of Mount Sinai is described.
Jerome· Commentary on the Song of Deborah, 420Patristic
The mountains melted from before the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 97:5
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Commentary on Psalms 97:52 voices
The mountains flowed away like wax. To me these mountains seem to be the powers of the demons. Or certainly the mountains are proud men, whoever they be. This fire does not consume the humble, but whoever are mountainous. And indeed, whenever a lightning-bolt is sent forth, it strikes with difficulty those who are in the valley, but always those who are on the mountain.
Jerome· Homily 24, on Psalm 96, 420Patristic
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
Commentary on Psalms 104:322 voices
Who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble. For our earth shall tremble on the day of judgment. And it signifies the earthly sinners. Who touches the mountains, and they smoke. If the mountains smoke, how much more the earth? The saints smoke, since we shall all be saved through fire. For it would not have smoke, unless there were fire.
Jerome· Homily 30, on Psalm 103, 420Patristic
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth,.... As Sinai did when he descended on it, Psa 68:8, to which the allusion seems to be; and a look from him, a severe one, a frowning one, will make the inhabitants of the earth to tremble; a providential look, sending famine, pestilence or the sword among them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 144:5
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Commentary on Psalms 144:52 voices
Lord, bow down your heavens, and descend. You will not be able to save this vileness of man, unless you yourself put it on. Lord, bow down your heavens, and descend. Your straying sheep will not be able to be healed, unless it is carried back on your shoulders. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 'Amen I say to you: if you shall have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Pass over, and it shall be transferred.' There it was being said concerning the lunatic.
Jerome· Homily 54, on Psalm 143, 420Patristic
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down,.... The heavens, which the Lord has made, and where he dwells; and which are under his influence, and he can cause to incline or bow at his pleasure: and which literally may be said to bow, particularly the airy heavens, when these are filled with clouds heavy with rain, and hang low, ready to fall upon the earth, and being rent, let down showers on it: and mystically may design storms of wrath gathering over the heads of ungodly men, and revealed from heaven against them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 34:9
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
Commentary on Isaiah 34:92 voices
739. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch. Here he sets out the threat as to the destruction of the land. And concerning this he does three things: first, he foretells the destruction; second, the desolation of the destroyed land: it shall lie …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
(Verses 8 and following) For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of retribution in the judgment of Zion. Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its soil into sulfur; its land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will pass through it forever. The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell in it.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 34:10
It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
Commentary on Isaiah 34:102 voices
Second, he places the duration of the punishment: it shall not be quenched, that is, the effect of this fire will remain forever; smoke, the sign and memory of preceding fire: her smoke ascends for ever and ever (Rev 19:3); and this is to be …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
(Verses 8 and following) For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of retribution in the judgment of Zion. Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its soil into sulfur; its land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will pass through it forever. The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell in it.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 64:1–3
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Commentary on Isaiah 64:1–31 voice
(Chapter 64, Verses 1 and following.) Oh, that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake before you! As when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Jeremiah 51:25
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
Commentary on Jeremiah 51:251 voice
He calls Babylon a mountain because of the preeminence of its power. He calls it corrupt because of its ungodliness and wickedness.
Theodoret of Cyrus· ON JEREMIAH 10:51, 458Patristic
- Micah 1:4
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Commentary on Micah 1:42 voices
(Verse 3, sequence) Because behold the Lord will go out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the heights of the earth, and the mountains will be consumed beneath him, and the valleys will be split like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a steep slope. Because of the wickedness of Jacob, all this, and because of the sins of the house of Israel. What wickedness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what heights of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
Jerome· Commentary on Micah, 420Patristic
And he shall come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. The descent of God is, and his majesty runs down to lower things, to tread upon the earth, and to crush even the powerful. And they shall be consumed, he says, whether the mountains waste away, and the valleys beneath him, whom we understand to be the leaders and the people. And just as nearby fire does not sustain wax, and flowing water is carried headlong: so shall the pride of all the wicked, when the Lord comes, be dissolved and flow away.
Jerome· Commentary on Micah, 420Patristic
- Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Commentary on Nahum 1:51 voice
(Version 5.) The mountains were moved by him, and the hills were made desolate, and the earth trembled before him, and the world, and all that dwell therein. LXX: The mountains were moved by him, and the hills were shaken, and the earth was contracted before his face, the whole universe and all who dwell in it. It can also be understood simply that at the end of the world, when the Savior comes in his majesty, the mountains, hills, world, and earth will be moved.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic
- Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Commentary on Nahum 1:61 voice
(Verse 6) Who can stand before the face of His anger, and who can endure the fury of His wrath? LXX translation: Who can withstand the face of His anger, and who can resist in the fury of His wrath? Symmachus has interpreted it more clearly: Who can endure the wrath of His fury? Therefore, it is rare or nonexistent to find anyone who is not worthy of being seized by anger. And there will be no soul that does not tremble at the judgment of God, since even the stars are not clean in His sight (Job. XXV, 5).
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic