Deuteronomy 4:33

33 "¹Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

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Deuteronomy 4:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:33

Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of fire
None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, ( Deuteronomy 4:12 Deuteronomy 4:15 )

as thou hast heard, and live?
which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:33 In-Context

31 "For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

32 "Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other . Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

33 "Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

34 "Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 "To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD , He is God; there is no other besides Him.

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1. Exodus 20:22; Deuteronomy 5:24, 26

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Deuteronomy 4:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:33 In-Context

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