Exodus 19:20

The Lord descended on the top of Mount Sinai, and he called Moses to come up there. So Moses went up,

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In The King James Version

And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

In Context

19As the sound of the ram's horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in a loud, thunderous voice.

21and the Lord told him, “Go back down, and warn the people not to force their way across the boundary to try to come to the Lord or they will die.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:11and be ready on the third day because that is when the Lord will descend upon Mount Sinai in the full view of everyone.

Exodus 24:15As Moses climbed up on the mountain, the cloud covered it.

Exodus 34:2Get ready in the morning, and then come up Mount Sinai. Stand before me there on the mountain top.

Deuteronomy 9:9This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded the agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.

Psalms 81:7In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:17-25

The Divine Presence on Mount Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof… Read the whole commentary →

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