4The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
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And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. …
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, 1. Moses summons the assembly. He called all Israel ; not only the elders, but, it is likely, as many of the people as could come within hearing, Deut. 5:1. The greatest of them were not above God’s command, nor the meanest of them below his cognizance; but they were all bound to do. 2. He demands attention: “ Hear, O Israel ; hear and heed, hear and remember, hear, that you may learn, and k…
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