Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 24:17
And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Verse 17. The glory of the Lord was like devouring fire] This appearance was well calculated to inspire the people with the deepest reverence and godly rear; and this is the use the apostle makes or it, Heb 12:28-29, where he evidently refers to this place, saying, Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear; for our God is a CONSUMING FIRE. Seeing the glory of the Lord upon the mount like a devouring fire, Moses having tarried long, the Israelites probably supposed that he had been devoured or consumed by it, and therefore the more easily fell into idolatry. But how could they do this, with this tremendous sight of God’s glory before their eyes?
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He saith
like it, for it was not
devouring fire, as appears by Mosess long abode in it. Note here, whatsoever the elders of Israel saw before, the people saw no similitude of God, as Moses observes, Deu 4:15.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount,…. For when God spoke out of the cloud, the glory of the Lord flashed out like devouring fire; it was not devouring fire, but it was like it; it was like a great blaze of fire, which consumes all that is in its ways; it was such a large body of light, and so clear and bright, that it looked like devouring flames of fire; and being upon the top of the mount was very visible, and seen at a great distance in the eyes of the children of Israel throughout, their camp.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) The sight of the glory of the Lord.To the Israelites in the plain below, the appearance on the top of the Ras Sufsafeh was like devouring fire. A light like that of a conflagration rested on the top of the Ras Sufsafeh all the time that Moses was away.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Heb 12:29 ; Psa 1:3 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Ver. 17. Was like devouring fire. ] So it is still; Heb 12:29 which so terrifieth the sinners in Zion, that they run away with these words in their mouths, “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” Isa 33:14
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
like devouring fire: Exo 3:2, Exo 19:18, Deu 4:24, Deu 4:36, Eze 1:27, Nah 1:6, Hab 3:4, Hab 3:5, Heb 12:18, Heb 12:29
Reciprocal: Exo 18:5 – General Exo 24:16 – the glory Exo 24:18 – went into Num 10:33 – the mount Num 14:10 – And the Deu 4:13 – And he 2Sa 22:9 – went 2Ch 7:2 – the priests Eze 1:4 – a great Luk 8:52 – all
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like {l} devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
(l) The Lord appears like devouring fire to carnal men: but to them that he draws with his Spirit, he is like pleasant sapphire.