希伯来书 12:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為他們擔當不起那命令：“就是走獸挨近這山，也要用石頭把牠打死。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 他 们 当 不 起 所 命 他 们 的 话 ， 说 ： 靠 近 这 山 的 ， 即 便 是 走 兽 ， 也 要 用 石 头 打 死 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness, and storms. ¹⁹ You have not come to the noise of a trumpet or to the sound of a voice like the one the people of Israel heard and begged not to hear another word. ²⁰ They did not want to hear the command: "If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be put to death with stones." ²¹ What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, "I am shaking with fear." ²² But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands of angels gathered together with joy. ²³ You have come to the meeting of God's firstborn children whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect. ²⁴ You have come to Jesus, the One who brought the new agreement from God to his people, and you have come to the sprinkled blood that has a better message than the blood of Abel. ²⁵ So be careful and do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Others refused to listen to him when he warned them on earth, and they did not escape. So it will be worse for us if we refuse to listen to God who warns us from heaven. ²⁶ When he spoke before, his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once again I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." ²⁷ The words "once again" clearly show us that everything that was made—things that can be shaken—will be destroyed. Only the things that cannot be shaken will remain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For they: Deuteronomy 33:2, Romans 3:19, Romans 3:20, Galatians 2:19, Galatians 3:10

if so much: Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:5 - Draw not Exodus 19:12 - or touch Exodus 34:3 - General Leviticus 20:16 - and the beast Nehemiah 4:14 - great Ezekiel 20:40 - in mine

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.

Genesis 12:11
Just before they arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king's palace, and

Exodus 18:27
So Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro went back to his own home.

Proverbs 21:1
The Lord can control a king's mind as he controls a river; he can direct it as he pleases.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they could not endure that which was commanded,.... In the law; not that they disliked and despised the law, as unregenerate men do; but they could not endure it, or bear it, as a yoke, it being a yoke of bondage; nor as a covenant of works, it requiring perfect obedience, but giving no strength to perform; and as it showed them their sins, but did not direct them to a Saviour; as it was an accusing, cursing, and condemning law; and, as a fiery one, revealing wrath, and filling the conscience with it; unless this should have any respect to the following edict, more particularly:

and if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart; and, if a beast, much more a man: and, how easily, through inadvertence, might this be done? and how terrible was the punishment? nothing less than death, by stoning, or being shot: and this they could not bear to hear, or think of: the last clause, "or thrust through with a dart", is wanting in the Alexandrian and Beza's Claromontane copies, in the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; and yet is necessary to be retained, being in the original text, in Exodus 19:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they could not endure that which was commanded - They could not sustain the awe produced by the fact that God uttered his commands himself. The meaning is not that the commands themselves were intolerable, but that the manner in which they were communicated inspired a terror which they could not bear. They feared that they should die; Exodus 20:19.

And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned - Exodus 19:13. The prohibition was, that neither beast nor man should touch it on pain of death. The punishment was to be either by stoning, or being “shot through.”

Or thrust through with a dart - Exodus 19:13. “Or shot through.” This phrase, however, though it is found in the common editions of the New Testament, is wanting in all the more valuable manuscripts; in all the ancient versions; and it occurs in none of the Greek ecclesiastical writers, with one exception. It is omitted now by almost all editors of the New Testament. It is beyond all doubt an addition of later times, taken from the Septuagint of Exodus 19:13. Its omission does not injure the sense.