SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES, Darkness, of God's inscrutability

Exodus 20:21

21. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

Leviticus 16:2

2. And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

1 Kings 8:12

12. Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Psalms 18:11

11. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Psalms 97:2

2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

Hebrews 12:18-19

18. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: