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Time after Pentecost · Proper 6 · Year A

Exodus 19:2-8

A Priestly Kingdom at Sinai

June 14, 2026

Moses on Mount Sinai, Jean-Léon Gérôme
Moses on Mount Sinai, Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1895–1900Private collection
Gérôme's Moses stands alone on a summit above cloud, dark against the light, the figure reduced almost to a silhouette.Exodus 19 has the people kept back at the foot of the mountain while one man goes up, and Hebrews contrasts that mountain with the one we have come to instead.Private collectionIn private hands, which is why it is seen in reproduction far more often than in the flesh.Private collection
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMatt. 9:35-10:8 (9-20)Mt 9:35-10:8 (9-20)
EpistleRom. 5:6-15Rom 5:6-15
Old TestamentExod. 19:2-8Ex 19:2-8
PsalterPs. 100Ps 100

Overview & Insights

"Now therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples." (Exodus 19:5)

At Mount Sinai God recalls how he carried Israel out of Egypt on eagles' wings and brought them to himself. He offers a covenant that, if kept, will make them his treasured possession, a priestly kingdom and a holy nation, and the people agree.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Exodus 19:2-8aWorking Preacher: Commentary on Ex 19:2-8a Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on the covenant offered at Sinai.

Enduring Word: Exodus 19Enduring Word: Ex 19 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Exodus 19 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Ex 19 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study gathering many commentators on Israel at the mountain.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Exodus 19:2BibleHub: Commentaries on Ex 19:2 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to Israel's arrival at Sinai.

StudyLight: Exodus 19 CommentariesStudyLight: Ex 19 Commentaries StudyLight

Many complete commentaries on Exodus 19 gathered on one passage page.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Exodus 19 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Ex 19 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Exodus 19 InterlinearBibleHub: Ex 19 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Exodus 19Catena: Ex 19 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Exodus 19.

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