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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 29:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, etc.] The ground of it, the trees in it, and the beasts that harbour there; and causes them to be in pain, and to bring forth their young, as the f449 word signifies, and as it is rendered in (<192909>Psalm 29:9); all which effects thunder produces, and may mystically signify the preaching of the Gospel among the Gentiles, and the consequence of it. The Gentile world may be compared to a wilderness, and is called the wilderness of the people, (<262035>Ezekiel 20:35); the inhabitants of it being ignorant, barren, and unfruitful; and the conversion of them is expressed by turning a wilderness into a fruitful land, (<233501>Isaiah 35:1,2,6,7 41:18,19); and the Gospel being sent thither has been the means of shaking the minds of many with strong and saving convictions; which made them tremble and cry out, what shall we do to be saved? the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh; which was the terrible wilderness that the children of Israel passed through to Canaan’s land; the same with the wilderness of Zin, (<043336>Numbers 33:36); and was called Kadesh from the city of that name, on the borders of Edom, (<042001>Numbers 20:1,16); the Targum paraphrases it, “The word of the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Rekam;” in the Targum in the King’s Bible it is, “makes the serpents in the wilderness of Rekam to tremble;” but that thunder frightens them, I have not met with in any writer.
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