Albert Barnes Commentary Exodus 19:18

Albert Barnes Commentary

Exodus 19:18

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Exodus 19:18

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly." — Exodus 19:18 (ASV)

A furnace - The word in the original is Egyptian, and occurs only in the Pentateuch.