Exodus 24:10
They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
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In Context
9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
11He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
Cross References
Genesis 32:30Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Exodus 3:6Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 33:23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
Judges 13:22Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
2 Chronicles 6:17Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
Isaiah 6:1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 24:10-12
A Manifestation of God. ( b. c. 1491.) 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. The people having, besides their submission to the ceremony of the sprinkling of blood, declared their… Read the whole commentary →