Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
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Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
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Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 4:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 5:24 and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
- Judges 6:22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”
- Exodus 33:20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
- Exodus 24:11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
- Deuteronomy 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
- Exodus 19:18-19 All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
- Exodus 20:18-19 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
- Exodus 20:22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
- Deuteronomy 4:24-26 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 9:10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such…
i.e. And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such a glorious appearance. See Exo 24:11; 33:20
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking…
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire,.... None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, Deu 4:12.
as thou hast heard, and live? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And live - And was not overwhelmed and consumed…
And live - And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such a glorious appearance.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 33. Did ever people hear the voice of…
Verse 33. Did ever people hear the voice of God] It seems to have been a general belief that if God appeared to men, it was for the purpose of destroying them; and indeed most of the extraordinary manifestations of God were in the way of judgment; but here it was different; God did appear in a sovereign and extraordinary manner; but it was for the deliverance and support of the people.
1. They heard his voice speaking with them in a distinct, articulate manner.
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2. They saw the fire, the symbol of his presence, the appearances of which demonstrated it to be supernatural.
3. Notwithstanding God appeared so terrible, yet no person was destroyed, for he came, not to destroy, but to save.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain And lived. It was generally supposed that those who…
And lived. It was generally supposed that those who had seen a vision of God, or of his angel, would instantly die. See Genesis xvi. 13. (Haydock) (Chap. v. 24.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. voice of God] Rather, the voice of a…
33. voice of God] Rather, the voice of a god, and with Sam. and LXX add living. Cp. Deu_5:26.
and live] Deu_5:23 ff. The well-known belief of ancient man that it meant death to come into close converse with the Deity.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Cf. ver. 12; v, 22-26; Gen_16:13.
Cf. ver. 12; v, 22-26; Gen_16:13.
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