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Deuteronomio 33:2

2 Ug siya miingon: Si Jehova miabut gikan sa Sinai, Ug gikan sa Seir siya mitindog diha kanila; Misilaw siya gikan sa bukid sa Paran, Ug mianhi siya gikan sa napulo ka libo ka mga balaan: Sa iyang kamot nga too diha ang masiga nga Kasugoan alang kanila.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Armies;   Death;   God;   Law;   Paran;   Seir;   Sinai;   Theocracy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Paran;   The Topic Concordance - Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of Moses, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy;   Paran, or El-Paran;   Saint;   Simeon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Habakkuk, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Paran, Mount;   Saint;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Deborah;   Frontlets;   Law;   Paran;   Pentateuch;   Seir, Mount;   Shechinah;   Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archangel;   Paran;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Massah and Meribah;   Paran;   Targums;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Paran ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Saints;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fiery;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Edom;   God;   Massah and Meribah;   Mediation;   Paran;   Sinai;   Tongues of Fire;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Antinomianism;   Aquila (Βλώμβσ);   Bible in Mohammedan Literature;   Corn;   Decalogue, the, in Jewish Theology;   Fire;   Gentile;   Kadesh;   Ma'aseh Bereshit;   Paran;   Poetry;   Saul of Tarsus;   Seir;   Simḥat Torah;   Sinai, Mount;   Theophany;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came from Sinai: Exodus 19:18-20, Judges 5:4, Judges 5:5, Habakkuk 3:3

ten thousands: Psalms 68:7, Psalms 68:17, Daniel 7:9, Acts 7:53, Galatians 3:19, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, Hebrews 2:2, Jude 1:14, Revelation 5:11

a fiery law: Heb. a fire of law, Deuteronomy 5:22, 2 Corinthians 3:7, 2 Corinthians 3:9, Galatians 3:10, Hebrews 12:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:6 - a kingdom Exodus 19:11 - the Lord Numbers 10:12 - the wilderness Deuteronomy 1:1 - Paran Deuteronomy 5:25 - this great Deuteronomy 11:29 - General Joshua 11:17 - that goeth 1 Kings 11:18 - Paran Nehemiah 9:13 - camest Job 5:1 - the saints Psalms 50:2 - God Psalms 50:5 - my saints Psalms 80:1 - shine Psalms 89:5 - in the congregation Psalms 147:19 - showeth Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 33:22 - lawgiver Daniel 4:13 - an holy Daniel 7:10 - thousand thousands Daniel 8:13 - one saint Zechariah 14:5 - and all Mark 8:38 - when Galatians 4:25 - Sinai Ephesians 3:18 - with 1 Thessalonians 3:13 - with 2 Thessalonians 1:9 - the glory Hebrews 12:22 - an innumerable

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said,.... What follows, of which, in some things, he was an eye and ear witness, and in others was inspired by the Spirit of God, to deliver his mind and will concerning the future case and state of the several tribes, after he had observed the common benefit and blessing they all enjoyed, by having such a law given them in the manner it was:

the Lord came from Sinai; there he first appeared to Moses, and sent him to Egypt, and wrought miracles by him, and delivered his people Israel from thence, and when they were come to this mount he came down on it, as Aben Ezra, from Gaon, or he came "to" it; so to Zion, Isaiah 59:20, is "out of" or "from Zion", Romans 11:26; here he appeared and gave the law, and from thence went with Israel through the wilderness, and conducted them to the land of Canaan:

and rose up from Seir unto them: not to the Edomites which inhabited Seir, as say Jarchi, and the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, but to the Israelites when they compassed the land of Edom; and the Lord was with them, and gave them some signal proofs of his power and providence, kindness and goodness, to them; particularly, as some observe, by appointing a brazen serpent to be erected for the cure those bitten by fiery ones, which was a type of the glorious Redeemer and Saviour, and this was done on the borders of Edom, see Numbers 21:4; for the words here denote some illustrious appearance of the Lord, like that of the rising sun; so the Targum of Onkelos,

"the brightness of his glory from Seir was shown unto us;''

and that of Jonathan,

"and the brightness of the glory of his Shechinah went from Gebal:''

he shined forth from Mount Paran: in which the metaphor of the sun rising is continued, and as expressive of its increasing light and splendour: near to this mount was a wilderness of the same name, through which the children of Israel travelled, and where the Lord appeared to them: here the cloud rested when they removed from Sinai; here, or near it, the Spirit of the Lord was given to the seventy elders, and from hence the spies were sent into the land of Canaan, Numbers 10:12; in this wilderness Ishmael and his posterity dwelt, Genesis 21:21; but it was not to them the Lord shone forth here, as say the above Jewish writers, and others d; but to the Israelites, for here Moses repeated the law, or delivered to them what is contained in the book of Deuteronomy, see Deuteronomy 1:1; beside, in a literal sense, as these mountains were very near one another, as Saadiah Gaon observes, the great light which shone on Mount Sinai, when the Lord descended on it, might extend to the other mountains and illuminate them, see Habakkuk 3:3;

and he came with ten thousands of saints: or holy angels, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi; which sense is confirmed by the authorities of Stephen the protomartyr, and the Apostle Paul, who speak of the law as given by the disposition of angels, they being present, attending and assisting on that solemn occasion, Acts 7:57; see Psalms 68:17; the appearance of those holy spirits in such great numbers added to the grandeur and solemnity of the giving of the holy law to the people of Israel, as the attendance of the same on Christ at his second coming will add to the lustre and glory of it, Luke 9:26;

from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them: the Israelites; Aben Ezra thinks the phrase, "his right hand", is in connection with the preceding clause; and the sense is, that fire came from the law, thousands of saints were at the right hand of God to surround Israel, as the horses of fire and chariots of fire surrounded Elisha; and the meaning of the last words, "a law for them", a law which stands or abides continually; and so the Septuagint version is,

"at his right hand angels with him:''

no doubt that law is meant which came from God on Mount Sinai, by the ministration of angels, into the hand of Moses; called a fiery law, because it was given out of the midst of the fire, Deuteronomy 5:26; so the Targum of Onkelos,

"the writing of his right hand out of the midst of fire, the law he gave unto us;''

and because of its effects on the consciences of men, where it pierces and penetrates like fire, and works a sense of wrath and fiery indignation in them, by reason of the transgressions of it, it being the ministration of condemnation and death on that account; and, because of its use, it serves as a lantern to the feet, and a light to the path of good men: this law may include the judicial and ceremonial laws given at this time; but it chiefly respects the moral law, and which may be said to come from God, who, as Creator, has a right to be Governor of his creature, and to enact what laws he pleases, and from his right hand, in allusion to men's writing with their right hand, this being written by the finger of God; and because a peculiar gift of his to the Israelites, gifts being given by the right hand of men; and may denote the authority and power with which this law came enforced, and Christ seems to be the person from whose right hand it came: see

Psalms 68:17.

d Vid. Pirke Eliezer, c. 41.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By “Seir” is to be understood the mountain-land of the Edomites, and by “mount Paran” the range which forms the northern boundary of the desert of Sinai (compare Genesis 14:6 note). Thus the verse forms a poetical description of the vast arena upon which the glorious manifestation of the Lord in the giving of the covenant took place.

With ten thousands of saints - Render, from amidst ten thousands of holy ones: literally from myriads of holiness, i. e., holy Angels (compare Zechariah 14:5). God is represented as leaving heaven where He dwells amidst the host of the Angels 1 Kings 22:19 and descending in majesty to earth Micah 1:3.

A fiery law - more literally as in the margin, with perhaps an allusion to the pillar of fire Exodus 13:21. The word is much disputed.


 
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