Hebrews 12:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: ”

• Hebrews 12:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the voice of a trumpet - Exodus 19:19 . The sound of the trumpet amidst the tempest was suited to increase the terror of the scene. And the voice of words - Spoken by God; Exodus 19:19...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing passage. The first covenant was established on a mount that m...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sound . Greek. echos. See Acts 2:2 . words . Greek. rhema. See Mark 9:32 . intreated . Greek. paraiteomai. Same as "refuse" in Hebrews 12:25 . See Luke 14:18 (make excuse). word . G...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. They that heard entreated, etc. This is the second clause, in which he shows that the Law was very different from the Gospel; for when it was promulgated there was nothing but terrors...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 12:18-25 . Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness,...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: Trumpet - to rouse attention, and herald God's a...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patien...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Christ. The mount that might be touched. —...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XV. MOUNT ZION. "For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voic...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Hearken to God's Latest Word Hebrews 12:18-29 Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage!...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four secti...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the sound of a trumpet ,.... Exodus 19:16 , which made it still more awful, as the sound of the trumpet will at the last day: and the voice of words ; of the ten words, or decalogue; which wa...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: Ver. 19. And the sound of a trumpet ] Showing the...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For , &c. As if he had said, Take heed of apostatizing from Christianity to Judaism again, because of the great privileges you enjoy by the gospel above what your fathers enjoyed by the law: whi...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D.  62.       18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And the sound of a trumpet; which was most shrill and dreadful, it sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, giving a fearful alarm unto Israel to draw near to the Lord to hear his law to them, an...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘For you are not come to what might be touched, and which burned with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words.' The situation of those o...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:18 . Might be touched. —A figure of speech for a “material” thing. “A palpable and enkindled fire.” For the terrors accompanying the giving of the law on...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 12:18-25 The Blessedness of the Christian Life. A Christian Jew is writing to Christian Jews, who stand in some danger of falling back to the religion they had abandoned. This writer is h...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All through the chapter he keeps up the idea of the grea...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course,...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19 , but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1-58 . I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The covenant of fear contrasted with that of grace:

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ; Deuteronomy 18:16 ; Deuteronomy 4:12 ; Deuteronomy 4:33 ; Deuteronomy 5:24-27 ; Deuteronomy 5:3-22 ; Exodus 19:16-19 ; Exodus 20:1-17 ; Exodus 2...

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• Hebrews 12:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The sound of a trumpet — Formed, without doubt, by the ministry of angels, and preparatory to the words, that is, the Ten Commandments, which were uttered with a loud voice, Deuteronomy 5:22 .

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