11And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
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.
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.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here, I. God intimates to Moses his purpose of coming down upon mount Sinai, in some visible appearance of his glory, in a thick cloud (Exod. 19:9); for he said that he would dwell in the thick darkness (2 Chron. 6:1), and make this his pavilion (Ps. 18:11), holding back the face of his throne when he set it upon mount Sinai, and spreading a cloud upon it , Job 26:9. This thick cloud was to prohib…
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