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Selected Verse: Exodus 34:28 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 34:28 |
King James |
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights--as long as formerly [Exo 24:18], being sustained for the execution of his special duties by the miraculous power of God. A special cause is assigned for his protracted fast on this second occasion (Deu 9:18). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| He wrote - i. e. Yahweh wrote Exo 34:1. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| He wrote - God. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Forty days and forty nights - See Clarke's note on Exo 24:18. |
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.