Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, etc.—The descent of God was signalized by every object imagination can conceive connected with the ideas of grandeur and of awe. But all was in keeping with the character of the law about to be proclaimed. As the mountain burned with fire, God was exhibited as a consuming fire to the transgressors of His law. The thunder and lightning, more awful amid the deep stillness of the region and reverberating with terrific peals among the mountains, would rouse the universal attention; a thick cloud was an apt emblem of the dark and shadowy dispensation (compare Matthew 17:5).
the voice of a trumpet—This gave the scene the character of a miraculous transaction, in which other elements than those of nature were at work, and some other than material trumpet was blown by other means than human breath.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 19:16:
Deuteronomy 33:2-4
Psalms 18:9
Psalms 50:1-4
Psalms 68:7-8
Psalms 97:1-2
Mark 13:27
1 Corinthians 15:52
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Hebrews 12:19
Revelation 4:5
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