Deuteronomy 5:24-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:23-33

Here, I. Moses reminds them of the agreement of both the parties that were now treating, in the mediation of Moses. 1. Here is the consternation that the people were put into by that extreme terror with which the law was given. They owned that they could not bear it any more: ?This great fire will consume us; this dreadful voice will be fatal to us; we shall certainly die if we hear it any more,? Deut. 5:25. They wondered that they were not already struck dead with it, and took it for an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:24

And ye said, behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness ,.... In descending on Mount Sinai in the manner he did, and giving the law from thence with such solemnity; for there was a glory in the ministration of it, as the apostle argues 2 Corinthians 3:7 , it being delivered with so much majesty, and such a glorious apparatus attending it; see Deuteronomy 33:2 . Aben Ezra interprets this of the appearance of fire in which the Lord was, "and his greatness", of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:25

Now therefore why should we die ?.... Since we are now alive, and have so wonderfully escaped the danger we were exposed unto, let us be careful that we are not liable to it again: for this great fire will consume us : if it continues, and we are exposed to it; perhaps some of them might remember the fire that burnt in the uttermost parts of the camp at Taberah, and the destruction of Korah and the two hundred and fifty men with him by fire, Numbers 11:1 , if we hear the voice of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:26

For who is there of all flesh ,.... What man was there in any age, that was ever heard of or can be named: that hath heard the voice of the living God ; who lives in and of himself, and is the author and giver of life to all his creatures, whereby he is distinguished from and is opposed unto the lifeless deities of the Gentiles; and which makes him and his voice heard the more awful and tremendous, and especially as speaking out of the midst of the fire : which was the present... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:27

Go thou near ,.... To the mount, and to God on it: and hear all that the Lord our God shall say ; for they supposed, by the continuance of the Lord on the mount, and the fire burning on it, that he had more to say, which they were not averse to hear; but desired it might be not immediately delivered to them, but by the means of Moses; the sound of the words, and the sight of the fire, being so terrible to them: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee :... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:28

And the Lord heard the voice of your word, when ye spake unto me ,.... Not only in a general way, as he hears and knows all that is spoken by men; for there is not a word on the tongue, formed upon it, and uttered by it, but what is altogether known to him; but in a special and particular manner observed, took notice of, approved, and was well pleased with what these people said: and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:29

O that there were such an heart in them ,.... Not that there is properly speaking such volitions and wishes in God; but, as Aben Ezra observes, the Scripture speaks after the language of the children of men; and may be considered as upbraiding them with want of such an heart, and with weakness to do what they had promised; and, at most, as approving of those things they spoke of as grateful to him, and profitable to them: the words may be rendered, "who will give F12 מי יתן "quis... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:30

Go say to them, get you into your tents again. Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of God, to the foot of Mount Sinai, to receive the law from his mouth; this being done, they are ordered to return to their tents again, to their families, wives, and children. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:31

But as for thee, stand thou here by me ,.... On the mount by him whither he was called up; Moses was not permitted to go to his tent when the children of Israel were, but was ordered to wait upon the Lord to receive instructions from him, which he was to communicate to the people, being a kind of a mediator between God and them, as they requested, and which was granted them: and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments : all laws, moral,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:32

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God doth command you ,.... Observe every precept, as to matter and manner, which the Lord has commanded, and that under a sense of the great obligations laid on them by him, in giving them freely so good a land to possess: you shall not turn to the right hand or to the left ; but walk in the way of the commandments of God, and not depart from them at all, but follow the Lord in his own ways fully. The phrase is expressive of a strict and... read more

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