Hebreabréfið 12:26

Heilögum Biblíunni

26 Raust hans lét jörðina bifast fyrrum. En nú hefur hann lofað: "Enn einu sinni mun ég hræra jörðina og ekki hana eina, heldur og himininn."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

voice: Exodus 19:18, Psalms 114:6, Psalms 114:7, Habakkuk 3:10

Yet once: Hebrews 12:27, Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 13:13, Joel 3:16, Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:7, Haggai 2:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:22 - I have talked Deuteronomy 18:19 - General 1 Kings 19:11 - an earthquake Job 9:6 - shaketh Job 26:11 - pillars Psalms 18:9 - He bowed Psalms 29:8 - shaketh Psalms 68:8 - earth Proverbs 1:24 - I have called Isaiah 30:32 - shaking Ezekiel 21:27 - General Ezekiel 26:15 - shake Ezekiel 31:16 - made Ezekiel 38:19 - Surely Zephaniah 1:14 - even Haggai 2:21 - I will Matthew 17:5 - hear Mark 9:7 - hear Luke 9:35 - hear Luke 14:21 - being Luke 14:24 - General Acts 6:14 - change Hebrews 2:1 - Therefore

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose voice then shook the earth,.... That is, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai: Christ was then present; his voice was then heard; which was either the voice of thunder, or the voice of the trumpet, or rather the voice of words: this shook the earth, Sinai, and the land about it, and the people on it; which made them quake and tremble, even Moses himself; see Exodus 19:18

but now he hath promised, saying in Haggai 2:6

yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven; not only the land of Judea, and particularly Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it, who were all shaken, and moved, and troubled at the news of the birth of the Messiah, the desire of all nations, the prophet Haggai speaks of, Matthew 2:2 but the heaven also; by prodigies in it, as the appearance of a wonderful star, which guided the wise men from the east; and by the motions of the heavenly inhabitants, the angels, who descended in great numbers, and made the heavens resound with their songs of praise, on account of Christ's incarnation, Matthew 2:2. How the apostle explains and applies this, may be seen in the next verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whose voice then shook the earth - When he spake at Mount Sinai. The meaning is, that the mountain and the region around quaked; Exodus 19:18. The “voice” here referred to is that of God speaking from the holy mount.

But now hath he promised, saying - The words here quoted are taken from Haggai 2:6, where they refer to the changes which would take place under the Messiah. The meaning is, that there would be great revolutions in his coming, “as if” the universe were shaken to its center. The apostle evidently applies this passage as it is done in Haggai, to the first advent of the Redeemer.

I shake not the earth only - This is not quoted literally from the Hebrew, but the sense is retained. In Haggai it is, “Yet once it is a little while, and I wilt shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come.” The apostle lays emphasis on the fact that not only the earth was to be shaken but also heaven. The shaking of the earth here evidently refers to the commotions among the nations that would prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.

But also heaven - This may refer either:

(1)To the extraordinary phenomena in the heavens at the birth, the death, and the ascension of Christ; or.

(2)To the revolutions in morals and religion which would be caused by the introduction of the gospel, as if everything were to be changed - expressed by “a shaking of the heavens and the earth;” or.

(3)It may be more literally taken as denoting that there was a remarkable agitation in the heavens - in the bosoms of its inhabitants - arising from a fact so wonderful as that the Son of God should descend to earth, suffer, and die.

I see no reason to doubt that the latter idea may have been included here; and the meaning of the whole then is, that while the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, fearful and solemn as it was, was an event that merely shook the earth in the vicinity of the holy Mount, the introduction of the gospel agitated the universe. Great changes upon the earth were to precede it; one revolution was to succeed another preparatory to it, and the whole universe would be moved at an event so extraordinary. The meaning is, that the introduction of the gospel was a much more solemn and momentous thing than the giving of the Law - and that, therefore, it was much more fearful and dangerous to apostatize from it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Whose voice then shook the earth — Namely, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; and from this it seems that it was the voice of Jesus that then shook the earth, and that it was he who came down on the mount. But others refer this simply to God the Father giving the law.

Not the earth only, but also heaven. — Probably referring to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem, and the total abolition of the political and ecclesiastical constitution of the Jews; the one being signified by the earth, the other by heaven; for the Jewish state and worship are frequently thus termed in the prophetic writings. And this seems to be the apostle's meaning, as he evidently refers to Haggai 2:6, where this event is predicted. It may also remotely refer to the final dissolution of all things.