Exodus 20:21

The People's Reaction

²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not." ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick cloud where God was. ²² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, 'Ye have seen how that I have talked with you from out of heaven.

Thick Cloud

Deep Darkness

Moses

1 Kings 8:12

Then spake Solomon, "The LORD said that he would dwell in darkness.

Psalm 18:9

He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and it was dark under his feet. {TYNDALE: And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.}

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his seat.

Exodus 19:16-17

And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.

Deuteronomy 5:5

And I stood between the LORD and you the same time, to show you the saying of the LORD. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up into the mount. And he said,

Deuteronomy 5:22

These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.

2 Chronicles 6:1

Then Solomon said, "The LORD hath spoken it, how that he will dwell in darkness.

Psalm 18:12

At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: Of the brightness that was before him, coals were set on fire.}

Psalm 104:2

Thou deckest thyself with light, as it were with a garment, and spreadest out the heaven like a curtain -

1 Timothy 6:16

which only hath immortality, and dwelleth in light that no man can attain, whom never man saw, neither can see: unto whom be honour and rule everlasting. Amen.