What does Exodus 20:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven."
Verse Exodus 20:22. _I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU FROM HEAVEN._] Though God manifested himself by the _fire_, the _lightning_, the _earthquake_, the _thick darkness_, c., yet the _ten words_, or _commandme...
Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for the building of altars must have been old and accepted, and a...
CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED _ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_ 2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18) This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First orally here,...
EXODUS 20:22 E. LAWS OF WORSHIP. This begins the Book of the Covenant, a small collection of religious and moral laws. The reference to God as talking with the people from heaven (Exodus 20:22_ b)_ wa...
THE LORD. [Hebrew. Jehovah] said. See note on Exodus 3:7, and compare note on Exodus 6:10....
_Thus thou shalt say_ Cf. Exodus 19:3. _from heaven_ As their position in the Heb. shews, these are the emphatic words in the sentence: their intention is to shew that the Israelites" God is exalted...
YE HAVE SEEN THAT I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU FROM HEAVEN— "Ye have had sufficient and convincing proofs, from the awful manifestations before you, that I, the JEHOVAH, have spoken to you myself from the h...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, (2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of E-gypt, out of the house of bondage. (3) Thou shalt have no o...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, THUS THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, YE HAVE SEEN THAT I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU FROM HEAVEN._ The Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and cal...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 20 GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17 V1 God spoke all these wor...
LAWS CONCERNING RELIGION. (22) YE HAVE SEEN THAT I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU FROM HEAVEN. — It was important to identify the giver of the Book of the Covenant with the deliverer of the Ten Commandments, a...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֔ה כֹּ֥ה תֹאמַ֖ר אֶל ־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַתֶּ֣ם רְאִיתֶ֔ם כִּ֚י מִן...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confes...
THE PEOPLE FEAR; IDOLS AND ALTARS Exodus 20:18 When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him, penitents wept at His feet, children...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
_Seen: no visible form; (Calmet) but I have spoken from the top of Sinai. (Haydock)_...
Reader! observe how earnest the Lord is to guard the people from every species of idolatry. Deuteronomy 4:15....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,.... When Moses was come near the thick darkness where God was: THUS THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; at his return unto them, and which he was to deliver in t...
And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. Ver. 22. _From heaven._] For wheresoever God is, heaven is: as whe...
While the people continued to stand _afar off_ Afraid of God's wrath, Moses drew near unto _the thick darkness_ He was _made to draw near;_ so the word is: Of himself he durst not have ventured into t...
1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be. 1 AND God spake all these words, saying, 2 [NOTE: Deu...
And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. This fact proved the superiority. the authority of the Lord, His ri...
B. THE FIRST COMPENDIOUS LAW OF SACRIFICE Exodus 20:22-26 22And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23Ye s...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in deliverin...
22-26 Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spake in his hearing all that follows from hence to the end of chap. 23, which is mostly an exposition of the ten commandments. The laws i...
YE HAVE SEEN, i.e. heard, as EXODUS 20:18. He may use the word _seen_ here, to intimate that this was all they could see of God, to wit, his voice and speech, and that they saw no image of him, as is...
It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
Exodus 20:22 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 say H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478 seen H7200 (H8804) talked H1696 (H8765) heaven H8064 I have talked - Deuteronomy 4:36; Nehemiah 9:13...
YAHWEH'S INSTRUCTION CONCERNING FUTURE WORSHIP (EXODUS 20:22). In view of their fears, and the commands that He has given in Exodus 20:3, Yahweh now makes provision for their worship. They are to reco...
CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards. Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
_Ye shall not make Me gods of silver._ GOD’S VOICE, BUT NOT A FORM God’s voice. Indicative of the Divine personality. II. God’s abhorrence of idolatry. Our loftiest conceptions, embodied in the mos...
EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7) and includes: the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1); instructions on...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:23. Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither, &c.] We prefer the Massoretic punctuation of this verse, which reveals a delicate appreciation of the meaning, althoug...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, (Exodus 20:1. Exodus 20:22, to Exodus 22:1.Exodus 22:23). The Decalogue is followed by a series of laws, civil, social, and religious, which occupy the remainder o...
And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1), Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments of God. I a...
I have talked Deuteronomy 4:36 Nehemiah 9:13 Hebrews 12:25 Hebrews 12:26...
Moses being gone into the thick darkness where God was, God there spoke in his hearing only, all that follows from hence to the end of chap. Exodus 23:1, which is mostly an exposition of the ten comma...