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Compare Deuteronomy 5:22. Aaron Exodus 19:24 on this occasion
accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness.
Exodus 20:22 to...
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CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED
_ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_
2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18)
This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First
orally here,...
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EXODUS 20:18 E. ALARM OF THE PEOPLE. This resumes Exodus 19:17 or
Exodus 19:19), and describes how the frightened people (read in Exodus
20:18 b
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MOSES DREW NEAR.
Of his own motion Moses would scarcely have durst to venture into the
thick darkness from which ever and anon the appalling gleams of
lightning burst forth; but being specially calle...
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AFAR OFF. Note the difference between law and grace. (Ephesians 2:13).
DREW NEAR. Moses' fourth ascent. See note on Exodus 19:3....
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_thick darkness -ǎrâphel_, the word, mostly poetical (Psalms 18:9; 1
Kings 8:12), used in Deuteronomy 4:11; Deuteronomy 5:22 [Heb. 19]....
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The people, alarmed by the terrible accompaniments of the theophany,
express a desire that in future Moses may speak to them instead of
God. Their wish is implicitly granted. Cf. Deuteronomy 5:22-31....
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MOSES DREW NEAR UNTO THE THICK DARKNESS— See note on ch. Exodus
19:20. See also ch. 24:
REFLECTIONS.—With pomp of terrible majesty God thus proclaims his
holy will: an emblem of the dispensation the...
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THE TEXT OF EXODUS
TRANSLATION
20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING,
(2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
E-gypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no ot...
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_AND THE PEOPLE STOOD AFAR OFF, AND MOSES DREW NEAR UNTO THE THICK
DARKNESS WHERE GOD WAS._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21)
Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or
'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and
social life of the people, and call...
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EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION
GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES
EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 20
GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17
V1 God spoke all these wor...
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AT THE PEOPLE’S REQUEST, MOSES BECOMES THEIR INTERMEDIARY.
(18-21) The delivery of the Ten Commandments by A voice manifestly
superhuman impressed the people with an awful fear. They felt the near
con...
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THE LESSER LAW.
Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33.
With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we
approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral
interest, confess...
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THE PEOPLE FEAR; IDOLS AND ALTARS
Exodus 20:18
When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the
publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him, penitents wept at His
feet, children n...
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Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a
proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am
Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
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How delightful in this view of Moses is it to discover the type of
Christ! Jeremiah 30:21....
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"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out
of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of
Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23.
But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes
entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as
He had...
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AND THE PEOPLE STOOD AFAR OFF,.... Still kept their distance in their
camp and tents; or the heads and elders of the people having had this
conversation with Moses, returned to their tents as they wer...
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And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick
darkness where God [was].
Ver. 21. _Stood afar off._] Yea, God, tendering their infirmity, gave
them leave to go home to their tents....
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While the people continued to stand _afar off_ Afraid of God's wrath,
Moses drew near unto _the thick darkness_ He was _made to draw near;_
so the word is: Of himself he durst not have ventured into t...
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1 The ten Commandements.
18 The people are afraid.
20 Moses comforteth them.
22 Idolatrie is forbidden.
24 Of what sort the Altar should be.
1 AND God spake all these words, saying,
2 [NOTE: Deut...
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THE TERROR OF THE PEOPLE...
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And the people stood afar off, remained standing at a distance, AND
MOSES, as the mediator of the people, DREW NEAR UNTO THE THICK
DARKNESS WHERE GOD WAS; in order to receive the further commands of
t...
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SECOND SECTION
The Threefold Law of the Covenant for the Covenant People on the Basis
of the Prophetic, Ethico-religious Divine Law of the Ten Commandments.
Historical Prophecy
Exodus 20-31
A. THE T...
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
(vs.1-17)
Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear
that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous
grace toward them in delivering...
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18-21 This law, which is so extensive that we cannot measure it, so
spiritual that we cannot evade it, and so reasonable that we cannot
find fault with it, will be the rule of the future judgment of...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and
object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a
tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
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Exodus 20:21 people H5971 stood H5975 (H8799) off H7350 Moses H4872
near H5066 (H8738) darkness H6205 God...
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THE AFTERMATH (EXODUS 20:18).
This passage immediately follows the glorious and awesome experience
that has been theirs in the proclamation of Yahweh's covenant. The
people are trembling in fear, and...
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CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards.
Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
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Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and
the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the
infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
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_They removed, and stood afar off._
ISRAEL AND SINAI
I. That all men as sinners must be brought into conscious contact with
moral law. The guarantees of this conscious contact are found--
1. In the...
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EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will
later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7)
and includes: the Ten Commandments ...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Exodus 20:19. We will hear.] Kalisch happily remarks that “in the
word _v‘nishma_‘AH, with the _he_ paragogicum, lies the readiness
and willingness: ‘we will eagerly and gladly hear....
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EXPOSITION
WITHDRAWAL OF THE PEOPLE, AND NEARER APPROACH OF MOSES TO GOD. The
effect produced upon the people by the accumulated terrors of
Sinai—"the thunderings and the lightnings, the noise of the...
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And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1),
Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All
right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments
of God.
I am...
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the people Exodus 19:16 Exodus 19:17 Deuteronomy 5:5 thick 1 Kings
8:12...
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While the people continued to stand afar off — Afraid of God's
wrath, Moses drew near unto the thick darkness; he was made to draw
near, so the word is: Moses of himself durst not have ventured into
t...