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Hebrews 12:26

Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And this word yet once more,.... Or as it is in Hag 2:6 "yet once it is a little while"; which suggests, that as something had been done already, so in a very little time, and at once, something very…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Whose voice then shook the earth - When he spake at Mount Sinai. The meaning is, that the mountain and the region around quaked; Exo 19:18. The “voice” here referred to is that of God speaking from…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Whose voice then shook the earth - Namely, at the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; and from this it seems that it was the voice of Jesus that then shook the earth, and that it was he who came down on…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hebrews 12:18-29

Here the apostle goes on to engage the professing Hebrews to perseverance in their Christian course and conflict, and not to relapse again into Judaism. This he does by showing them how much the state…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

whose voice then shook the earth Exo 19:18; Jdg 5:4; Psa 114:7.

but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more Rather, "again, once for all." The quotation is from Hag 2:6-7, "yet once, it is a…