Exo 24:16 - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Read and comment on the following passages, and how they might relate to the concept of the Sh’kinah [dwelling place] in the tents of Shem.

Exo 24:16 (abode, rested):

16. And the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai—The divine Shechinah or Majesty, some visible token of it, an exceeding great brightness and splendour:

Six days a cloud covered the mount—A visible token of Elohim's special presence there, for he so shews himself to us, as at the same time to conceal himself from us, he lets us know so much as to assure us of his power and grace, but intimates to us that we cannot find him out to perfection. During these six days Moses staid waiting upon the mountain, for a call into the presence-chamber.

Six days the cloud covered the mountain—Either the glory of Yahweh, so that it could not be seen it had been; or the mount, as Jarchi; but that is observed before, unless repeated for the sake of the time it covered it, six days; or him, Moses, as some in Jarchi, who for six days together was covered with a thick cloud, so that he was not seen by any while on the mountain; and thus he remained, until he was admitted into the immediate presence of Elohim, for which he was now preparing: what he did, or was made known to him during this time, is not said; it is probable his thoughts were employed about the glory and greatness of the divine Being; and as he was abstracted from earthly men and things, he was more at leisure to contemplate on divine and heavenly things, and so was more fitted for an intercourse with Elohim, and had more courage and presence of mind to enter into it:

And on the seventh day—Probably the Sabbath-day, Yahweh called to Moses. Now the thick cloud opened in the sight of all Israel, and the glory of Yahweh broke forth like devouring fire.

And on the seventh day Yahweh called to Moses from within the cloud—In which the glory of Elohim was, and which seems to favour the first sense of the preceding clause, that it was the glory of Elohim the cloud covered.

And . . . the seventh day Yahweh called—It is very likely that Moses went up into the mount on the first day of the week; and having with Joshua remained in the region of the cloud during six days, on the seventh, which was the Sabbath, Elohim spake to him, and delivered successively to him, during forty days and forty nights, the different statutes and ordinances which are afterwards mentioned.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Gill, John. "Commentary on Exodus 24:16." "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible." . 1999.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Exodus+24&section=0&version=niv&language=en

John Wesley's Notes on the Bible

Messiah Unveiled Genesis Copyright 2005 Richard Spurlock

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