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The Mount of God
Commentators explain that Horeb is called "the mount of God" because it was a place of divine revelation. It was where God had appeared to Moses in the burning bush and where He would soon give the Law. The name signifies a place consecrated by God's special presence and activity.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 18:5
18th Century
Theologian
The wilderness - that is, according to the view which seems on the whole most probable, the plain near the northern summit of Horeb, the mou…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 18:5
19th Century
Bishop
Where he encamped at the mount of God. — It is quite possible that “the mount of God” may be here used, in a broad sense,…
John Calvin
On Exodus 18:5
16th Century
Theologian
And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. It was not so much love for Moses as the fame of the miracles which drew this old man,195 bow…
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John Gill
On Exodus 18:5
17th Century
Pastor
And Jethro, Moses's father in law
This is the third time he is so called in the chapter already, and many more times…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 18:1–6
17th Century
Minister
Jethro came to rejoice with Moses in the happiness of Israel, and to bring his wife and children to him. Moses must have his family with him, so th…