100 Bible Verses About Theophany
Bible verses about Theophany
Encountering God's manifested presence, or Theophany, is a pivotal theme woven throughout scripture, inviting us to witness divine encounters that shaped history and redefined faith. Understanding these powerful moments – from the burning bush to the mountaintop experiences – offers profound insight into God's character, His relationship with humanity, and His unwavering commitment to revealing Himself. Studying Theophany through these verses allows us to connect with the awe and wonder felt by those who directly experienced God's glory, deepening our own spiritual journey and fostering a greater appreciation for the living God who actively engages with His creation.
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Psalms 47:5 (KJV)
God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Experiencing God: Exploring Theophany Bible Verses
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel.
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
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?
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
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 blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.
Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
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.
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
The theophanies explored reveal a God who is not distant or detached, but intimately involved in human history, choosing to manifest Himself in tangible ways to specific individuals and communities. From the burning bush to the earthquake on Mount Sinai, these encounters serve as powerful reminders of God's awesome power, holiness, and unwavering presence. Reflecting on these verses encourages us to cultivate a deeper awareness of God's potential for revelation in our own lives, whether through dramatic displays or quiet whispers of the Spirit. May we be open to recognizing God's presence in the ordinary and extraordinary, allowing these theophanies to inspire awe, humility, and a renewed commitment to seeking His face and obeying His will. Let these encounters serve as a foundation for our faith, strengthening our understanding of God's character and His enduring love for humanity.