33 Bible Verses About Encountering God

And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.

And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.