18And 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.
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The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
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 the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-25)Now, at length, comes that memorable day, that terrible day of the Lord, that day of judgment, in which Israel heard the voice of the Lord God speaking to them out of the midst of the fire, and lived , Deut. 4:33. Never was there such a sermon preached, before nor since, as this which was here preached to the church in the wilderness. For, I. The preacher was God himself (Exod. 19:18): The Lord de…
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