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Bishop's Bible

Exodus 24:17

And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like consumyng fire on ye top of the hill, in the eyes of ye children of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cloud;   God;   Law;   Miracles;   Sinai;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Glory;   God;   God's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cloud of Glory;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Glory, Glorify;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Glory;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Fire;   Glory;   Theophany;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cloud;   Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Exodus, Book of;   Fire;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Glory;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Glory (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Glory;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Other Laws;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ancients;   God;   Israel, Religion of;   Sinai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Crown of the Law;   Holiness;   Revelation;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the Israelites.
New Century Version
To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a fire burning on top of the mountain.
New English Translation
Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.
Amplified Bible
In the sight of the Israelites the appearance of the glory and brilliance of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the mountain.
New American Standard Bible
And to the eyes of the sons of Israel, the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sight of the glorie of the Lorde was like consuming fire on the top of the moutaine, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the mountain top, in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Moses did so and stayed there forty days and nights. To the people, the Lord 's glory looked like a blazing fire on top of the mountain.
Complete Jewish Bible
To the people of Isra'el the glory of Adonai looked like a raging fire on the top of the mountain.
Darby Translation
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites could see the Glory of the Lord . It was like a fire burning on top of the mountain.
English Standard Version
Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
And in the sight of all the children of Israel he saw the glory of the LORD like a burning fire on the top of the mountain.
Christian Standard Bible®
The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.
Literal Translation
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like fire burning on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye fashion of ye glory of ye LORDE was like a cosumynge fyre vpon the toppe of ye mount in the sight of the children of Israel.
American Standard Version
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like deuouring fire, on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
And the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
was as fier brennynge on the cop of the hil in the siyt of the sones of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And the appearance of the honour of Jehovah [is] as a consuming fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the sons of Israel;
Update Bible Version
And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
World English Bible
The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
New King James Version
The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
To the Israelites at the foot of the mountain, the glory of the Lord appeared at the summit like a consuming fire.
New Life Bible
To the people of Israel, the shining-greatness of the Lord looked like a fire that destroys on the mountain top.
New Revised Standard
Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire h on the top of the mountain, - in the sight of the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.

Contextual Overview

12 And the Lord said vnto Moyses: Come vp to me into the hill, and be there, and I wyll geue thee tables of stone, and a law & comaundementes which I haue written, that thou mayest teache them. 13 And Moyses rose vp, and his minister Iosuah: and Moyses went vp into the hill of God, 14 And said vnto the elders, Tary ye here vntill we come agayne vnto you: Behold, here is Aaron and Hur with you. If any man haue any matters to do, let hym come to them. 15 And Moyses went vp into the mount, aud a cloude couered the hyll. 16 And the glory of the Lord abode vpon the mout Sinai, & the cloude couered it six days: & the seuenth day he called vnto Moses out of ye middes of the cloude. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like consumyng fire on ye top of the hill, in the eyes of ye children of Israel. 18 And Moyses went into the middes of the cloude, and gate hym vp into the moutaine: & Moyses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

like devouring fire: Exodus 3:2, Exodus 19:18, Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 4:36, Ezekiel 1:27, Nahum 1:6, Habakkuk 3:4, Habakkuk 3:5, Hebrews 12:18, Hebrews 12:29

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:5 - General Exodus 24:16 - the glory Exodus 24:18 - went into Numbers 10:33 - the mount Numbers 14:10 - And the Deuteronomy 4:13 - And he 2 Samuel 22:9 - went 2 Chronicles 7:2 - the priests Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Luke 8:52 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.
Genesis 24:6
To whom Abraham aunswered: beware that thou bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
Genesis 24:7
The Lorde God of heauen whiche toke me from my fathers house, & from the land of my kinred, and which spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue this lande: he shall sende his angell before thee, and thou shalt take a wyfe vnto my sonne from thence.
Genesis 24:17
And the seruaunt runnyng to meete her, sayde: let me I pray thee drinke a litle water of thy pitcher.
Genesis 24:18
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
Genesis 24:35
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
1 Kings 17:10
So he arose, and went to Zarphath: and when he came to the gate of the citie, beholde the widow was there gathering of stickes: And he called to her, and said: set me I pray thee a litle water in a vessel, that I may drincke.
Isaiah 21:14
The inhabitours of the lande of Thema brought foorth water to hym that was thirstie, they preuented hym that was fled away with their bread.
Isaiah 30:25
Finally, vpon euery hye mountayne and hyll shall there be riuers, and streames of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towres fall.
Isaiah 49:10
They shall neither hunger nor thirst, heate nor sunne shall not hurt them: for he that fauoureth them shall leade them, and geue them drynke of the well sprynges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount,.... For when God spoke out of the cloud, the glory of the Lord flashed out like devouring fire; it was not devouring fire, but it was like it; it was like a great blaze of fire, which consumes all that is in its ways; it was such a large body of light, and so clear and bright, that it looked like devouring flames of fire; and being upon the top of the mount was very visible, and seen at a great distance in the eyes of the children of Israel throughout, their camp.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 24:17. The glory of the Lord was like devouring fire — This appearance was well calculated to inspire the people with the deepest reverence and godly rear; and this is the use the apostle makes or it, Hebrews 12:28-29, where he evidently refers to this place, saying, Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear; for our God is a CONSUMING FIRE. Seeing the glory of the Lord upon the mount like a devouring fire, Moses having tarried long, the Israelites probably supposed that he had been devoured or consumed by it, and therefore the more easily fell into idolatry. But how could they do this, with this tremendous sight of God's glory before their eyes?


 
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