King James Version
Exodus 24:17 in the King James Version says “And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Is...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.”
Exodus 24:17 · KJV
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the sight”
H4758a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks),
“of the glory”
H3519properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“on the top”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“in the eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“of the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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