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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 19:16-25

God again used the symbol of fire to reveal Himself on this mountain (Exodus 3:2-5). Fire is a symbol of His holiness that enlightens, purges, and refines. The smoke and quaking that accompanied the fire further impressed this awesome revelation on the people.The priests referred to (Exodus 19:22; Exodus 19:24) were evidently young men (first-born?) that offered sacrifices before God appointed the Aaronic priests to this service (cf. Exodus 24:5).Comparative ancient Near Eastern studies have... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 19:1-25

Preparation for the Giving of the Law1. The same day] the 15th day of the month: cp. Exodus 12:18, Exodus 12:29; Exodus 16:1. Marching slowly, with long halts at the various stations on the route, the host took two months to traverse the 150 m between Egypt and Sinai. Here they remained eleven months (see Numbers 10:11-12), during which time the nation entered into a formal covenant with Jehovah on the basis of the moral law received from God by Moses, and promulgated by him.Wilderness of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 19:21-25

GOD’S WARNING TO THE PEOPLE AGAINST A TOO NEAR APPROACH.(21-25) Warning was given, as soon as God announced His intention of descending upon Sinai, that the people must not approach too near. “Bounds” were set, and the people required to keep within them. Actual contact with the mountain was forbidden under penalty of death (Exodus 19:12). It is evident from Exodus 19:23 that the command to “set bounds” had been obeyed, and a fence erected which it would have required some force to “break... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 19:1-25

Exodus 19:4-5 A great deliverance, whether of a man or of a society, is a great claim on the life that is saved. The Israelites carried with them a grand inheritance of holiness and truth. They were saved because of it. As a nation they betrayed it. Edward Thring. References. XIX. 6, 6. Bishop Gibson, The Old Testament in the New, p. 31. XIX. 6. Bishop Diggle, Sermons for Daily Life, p. 100. Exodus 19:10 After the deification of the emperors we are told that it was considered impious so much... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 19:1-25

CHAPTER XIX.AT SINAI.Exodus 19:1-25.In the third month from the Exodus, and on the selfsame day (which addition fixes the date precisely), the people reached the wilderness of Sinai. This answers fairly to the date of Pentecost, which was afterwards connected by tradition with the giving of the law. And therefore Pentecost was the right time for the gift of the Holy Ghost, bringing with Him the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and that freedom from servile Jewish obedience which is... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 19:1-25

A CONDITIONAL PROMISE (vs.1-6) Chapter 19 begins the second great division of the book of Exodus. God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt has been fully accomplished though they are still in the wilderness. He had carried out His unconditional promise in this great deliverance. But now He makes a promise that is conditional on their obedience. This did not infringe on His first promise, but it is typical of God's authority being established among a redeemed people. Since they are redeemed to... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 19:1-25

PREPARATION FOR RECEIVING THE LAW The Exodus includes two concurring elements in the moral history of the people their redemption and their renovation. It is worthy of notice that God did not give Israel the law first and then say, “I will redeem you if you obey it,” but that He redeemed them first and gave them the law afterwards. THE ARRIVAL AT SINAI (Exodus 19:1-2 ) “In the third month the same day.” These words lead to the belief that the first day of the third (lunar) month is... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 19:1-25

The Commandments Exodus 19-20 We cannot get rid of Sinai in human education. If we persuade ourselves by some false reasoning that the things recorded in these chapters did not literally happen, we are playing the fool with ourselves. God could only come to us at the first by the letter. He touches us by infinite accommodations of his own nature and by a gracious study of our own. This is the plague of the imperfect reason, that it will quibble about the incident, the wrappage, and decoration... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 19:25

REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over the perusal of this Chapter, and while duly meditating the vast and infinite importance of God's righteous law, delivered with such awful solemnity on Mount Sinai; learn here from to contemplate with increasing joy and thankfulness, that precious, blessed, holy, law-fulfilling, law-satisfying surety; the Lord Jesus Christ, who hath answered all its demands, and is thereby become the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And under all the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 19:16-25

16-25 Never was there such a sermon preached, before or since, as this which was preached to the church in the wilderness. It might be supposed that the terrors would have checked presumption and curiosity in the people; but the hard heart of an unawakened sinner can trifle with the most terrible threatenings and judgments. In drawing near to God, we must never forget his holiness and greatness, nor our own meanness and pollution. We cannot stand in judgment before him according to his... read more