Deuteronomy 18:16 BSB

Deuteronomy 18:16

This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”

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ASV

according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

KJV

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Well," says God, "it shall be so; they shall be spoken to by men, whose terrors shall not make them afraid; " and, to crown the favour beyond what they were able to ask or think, in the fulness of time the Word itself was made flesh, and they saw his glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, not, as at Mount Sinai, full of majesty and terror, but full of grace and truth, John i.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כְּכֹ֨ל	ke.Khol	according to all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
שָׁאַ֜לְתָּ	sha.'Al.ta	you asked	H7592 →
מֵעִ֨ם	me.'Im	from with	H5973 →
יְהוָ֤ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
בְּחֹרֵ֔ב	be.cho.Rev	at Horeb	H2722 →
בְּי֥וֹם	be.Yom	on [the] day of	H3117 →
הַקָּהָ֖ל	ha.ka.Hal	the assembly	H6951 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אֹסֵ֗ף	'o.Sef	me repeat	H3254 →
לִשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙	lish.Mo.a'	to hear	H8085 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
קוֹל֙	kOl	[the] voice of	H6963 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהָ֔י	'e.lo.Hai	God my	H430 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הָאֵ֨שׁ	ha.'Esh	the fire	H784 →
הַגְּדֹלָ֥ה	ha.ge.do.Lah	<the> great	H1419 →
הַזֹּ֛את	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
אֶרְאֶ֥ה	'er.'Eh	let me see	H7200 →
ע֖וֹד	od	again	H5750 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
אָמֽוּת׃	'a.Mut	I will die	H4191 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 9:10
Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the…
leads to
- Exodus 31:18
  When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Deuteronomy 10:4
  And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly.…
- Hebrews 8:10
  For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…
Through
Hebrews 12:19
to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:52
  in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
- Deuteronomy 4:12
  And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
- Exodus 20:1–19
  And God spoke all these words:
Through
Exodus 20:19
“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
leads to
- Acts 7:38
  He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
- Exodus 33:20
  But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

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