John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments," — Nehemiah 9:13 (ASV)
You came down also upon Mount Sinai
By some visible tokens of his presence, as a cloud, fire, smoke which must be understood consistent with his omniscience, see (Exodus 19:18) ,
and spoke with them from heaven ;
the decalogue or ten commandments, (Exodus 20:1–17) ,
and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and
commandments ;
both judicial and ceremonial, which were of excellent use to them in their civil and ecclesiastical polity; these were not spoken to Israel, but given to Moses on the mount, to be delivered to them.