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Gill's Exposition
Onyx stones,.... So called from their likeness to the nail of a man's finger: the Targum of Onkelos calls them stones of beryl; and the Targum of Jonathan gems of beryl; and the Septuagint version,…
Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar…
Adam Clarke
Onyx stones - We have already met with the stone called שהם shoham, Gen 2:12, and acknowledged the difficulty of ascertaining what is meant by it. Some think the onyx, some the sardine, and some the…
We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things…
Cambridge Bible
Precious stones.
onyx Heb. shôham, a precious stone highly valued in OT. times (cf. Gen 2:12; Eze 28:13; Job 28:16; 1Ch 29:1). There is, how ever, some uncertainty what the shôhamwas, though it is…