Exodus 20:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Exodus 20:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:12
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Psalms 18:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
2 Chronicles 6:1
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-21)

I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lightning, much louder and brighter, no doubt, than ordinary. And why was the law given in this dreadful manner, and with all this tremendous ceremony? 1. It was designed (once for all) to give a sensible discovery of the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

18-21. all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings--They were eye and ear witnesses of the awful emblems of the Deity’s descent. But they perceived not the Deity Himself.