Deuteronomy 33:2

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Summary

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Came from sinai

Exodus 19:18

Judges 5:4

Habakkuk 3:3

Ten thousands

A fiery law

Bible References

Came from sinai

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful.

LORD, when thou departedest out of Seir and camest from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heaven rained, and the clouds dropped water:

God cometh from Teman, and the holy one from the mount of Paran. Selah.

Ten thousands

O God, when thou wentest forth before the people, when thou wentest through the wilderness, Selah,

"I looked till the seats were prepared, and till the Ancient of Days sat him down. His clothing was white as snow, and the hairs of his head like the pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as the burning fire.

And ye also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it."

Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

and to you which are troubled, rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven, with his mighty angels,

For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast - so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward -

Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of such saying, "Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints,

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels about the throne, and about the beasts and the elders, and I heard thousand thousands,

A fiery law

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.

If the ministration of death through the letters figured in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of countenance - which glory nevertheless is done away -

For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."

For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart: