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Keluaran 20:18

Seluruh bangsa itu menyaksikan guruh mengguntur, kilat sabung-menyabung, sangkakala berbunyi dan gunung berasap. Maka bangsa itu takut dan gemetar dan mereka berdiri jauh-jauh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fear of God;   God;   Trumpet;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Lightning;   Meteorology;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Proof;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Law of Moses, the;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;   Trumpet;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Immorality, Sexual;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Witchcraft;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Fear;   History;   Lightning;   Mediator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Ethics;   Exodus;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Lightning;   Mediator, Mediation;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Ten Commandments;   Thunder;   Truth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lightning;   Thunder ;   Torch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ten commandments;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Smoking;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Seeing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Other Laws;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blackness;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Moses;   Noise;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Earthquake;   Ishmael of Akbara;   Macedonia;   Sasslower, Jacob Koppel ben Aaron;   Shofar;   Swaying the Body;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Seluruh bangsa itu menyaksikan guruh mengguntur, kilat sabung-menyabung, sangkakala berbunyi dan gunung berasap. Maka bangsa itu takut dan gemetar dan mereka berdiri jauh-jauh.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka dilihat oleh mereka itu sekalian akan segala petir dan kilat dan bunyi nafiri dan bukit yang berasap itu; serta dilihatnya maka undurlah mereka itu, lalu berdiri dari jauh,

Contextual Overview

18 And all the people saw the thunder and lightning, and the noyse of the trumpet, and the mountayne smoking: And when the people sawe it, they remoued, and stoode a farre of: 19 And said vnto Moyses, Talke thou with vs, and we wyll heart: But let not God talke with vs, lest we dye. 20 And Moyses sayde vnto the people: feare not, for God is come to proue you, and that his feare may be before your eyes, that ye sinne not. 21 And the people stoode a farre of: and Moyses went into the thicke cloude where God was.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And all: Exodus 19:16-18

they removed: Psalms 139:7, Psalms 139:8, Jeremiah 23:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:16 - went Genesis 42:1 - saw Exodus 4:27 - the mount Exodus 9:23 - the Lord sent Exodus 19:18 - mount Sinai Deuteronomy 4:10 - the day Deuteronomy 4:11 - stood Deuteronomy 4:33 - General Deuteronomy 4:36 - General Deuteronomy 5:4 - General Deuteronomy 5:5 - General Deuteronomy 5:23 - General Judges 5:5 - that Sinai 1 Kings 19:11 - and a great Psalms 18:13 - thundered Psalms 81:7 - secret Psalms 114:4 - General Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice Habakkuk 3:3 - His glory John 12:29 - thundered 1 Corinthians 15:52 - last 2 Corinthians 3:9 - the ministration of condemnation 1 Thessalonians 4:16 - with the trump Hebrews 12:18 - General Hebrews 12:19 - they that Revelation 4:5 - proceeded Revelation 14:2 - of a

Cross-References

Genesis 12:17
But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe.
Genesis 16:2
And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
Genesis 20:7
Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast.
Genesis 30:2
And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe?
1 Samuel 1:6
And her enemie [Phenenna] vexed her sore, forasmuche as she vpbrayded her, because the Lord had made her barren.
1 Samuel 5:10
Therfore they sent the arke of God to Acaron: and assoone as the arke of God came to Acaron, the Acaronites cryed out, saying: They haue brought the arke of the God of Israel to vs, to slea vs, and our people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,.... That is, they heard the one, and saw the other; they heard the dreadful volleys of thunder, and saw the amazing flashes of lightning, which were like lamps and torches, as the word used signifies; by a communication of senses, one sense is put for another, and the sense of sight being the principal, as Ben Melech observes, it is put for the rest, and so in the following. It is an observation of Austin's o that to "see" is used of all of the five senses, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling:

and the noise the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: they the sound of the trumpet, which made them tremble and saw the mountain all in a smoke, which made it look very terrible. Though the words may be rendered, as they are by some, "they perceived the thunders", c. p had a sensible perception of them with their eyes ears, which greatly affected them, and made strong impressions upon their minds, and filled them with fear and dread:

and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off; their minds were not only terrified and distressed, and their bodies shook with fear; but they could not stand their ground, but were obliged to retreat, who but just before were curious to draw near, and gaze and see what they could, to prevent which bounds were set; but now these were needless, what they saw and heard were sufficient to keep them at a distance, nay, obliged them to quit their places; they were at the lower part of the mount before, and now they removed a good way from it, even to their camp, and to their tents in it, see Deuteronomy 5:30. The Targum of Jonathan says, they removed twelve miles; and so Jarchi, who observes, that this was according to the length of their camp.

o Confess. l. 10. c. 35. p ראים "percipiebant", Junius Tremellius, "intelligebant" so some in Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Deuteronomy 5:22-31. Aaron Exodus 19:24 on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness.

Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 is a series of laws which we may identify with what was written by Moses in the book called the book of the covenant, and read by him in the audience of the people Exodus 24:7.

The document cannot be regarded as a strictly systematic whole. Portions of it were probably traditional rules handed down from the patriarchs, and retained by the Israelites in Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 20:18. And all the people saw the thunderings, c. — They had witnessed all these awful things before, (see Exodus 19:16), but here they seem to have been repeated probably at the end of each command, there was a peal of thunder, a blast of the trumpet, and a gleam of lightning, to impress their hearts the more deeply with a due sense of the Divine Majesty, of the holiness of the law which was now delivered, and of the fearful consequences of disobedience. This had the desired effect; the people were impressed with a deep religious fear and a terror of God's judgments; acknowledged themselves perfectly satisfied with the discoveries God had made of himself; and requested that Moses might be constituted the mediator between God and them, as they were not able to bear these tremendous discoveries of the Divine Majesty. "Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die;" Exodus 20:19. This teaches us the absolute necessity of that great Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, as no man can come unto the Father but by him.


 
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