Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Exodus 33:21
And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
No JFB commentary on this verse.
And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Verse Exodus 33:21. _BEHOLD_, THERE IS _A PLACE BY ME_] There seems to be a reference here to a well-known place on the mount where God was accustomed to meet with Moses. This was a _rock_; and it ap...
5. MOSES' INTERCESSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 33 Repentance and Intercession _ 1. The word of the Lord and the people's repentance (Exodus 33:1)_ 2. The tabernacle without the camp (Exodus 33:7)...
EXODUS 33:1 J, EXODUS 33:5 E, EXODUS 33:12 J. YAHWEH'S PRESENCE. The sections of 34 have been glossed and disarranged. In Exodus 33:1 J, Yahweh's ref
A ROCK. the rock....
Moses resumes the intercession broken off at _v._3; and starting from the command given him in Exodus 32:34 a, Exodus 33:1 a obtains from Jehovah (_vv._14 16, as the text stands; see, however, on _v._...
Moses repeats, in a more definite form, his request of _v._13. He asks to be allowed to see Jehovah's glory; but is told in reply that he cannot see this in its fulness (_v._20); he may, however, have...
Jehovah accordingly bids Moses stand where he may see, as He passes by, not His full glory, but only His _back_, or HINDER PARTS (Exodus 26:12 Heb.), i.e., so to say, only the afterglow, which He leav...
_stand_ better, STATION THYSELF: cf. Exodus 34:2....
HE SAID, I BESEECH THEE, SHEW ME THY GLORY, &C.— Moses, having obtained from the Lord a merciful remission of the dread penalties denounced upon the Israelites, proceeds now to request a confirmation...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 33 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of E-gypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abr...
THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES (CONTINUED) 6. By the mount Horeb] RV 'from mount Horeb onward': this implies that they ceased wearing their ornaments. Their humiliation was lasting. Horeb] i.e. Sinai: see...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 33 THE *ISRAELITES REALISE THEIR *SIN – VERSES 1-6 V1 Then the *LO...
MOSES’ REQUEST TO SEE GOD’S GLORY, AND GOD’S REPLY TO IT. (18-23) Not till he had received full assurance of the people’s restoration to favour did Moses prefer any request for himself. Then, however,...
THERE IS A PLACE BY ME. — A place on the summit of Sinai, where God had been manifesting Himself, is clearly intended; but it is impossible to fix the place with any certainty. Speculations like those...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה מָקֹ֖ום אִתִּ֑י ו
CHAPTER XXXIII. _ PREVAILING INTERCESSION._ Exodus 33:1 At this stage the first concession is announced: Moses shall lead the people to their rest, and God will send an angel with him. We have seen...
GOD'S PRESENCE PROMISED AND HIS GLORY SHOWN Exodus 33:12 When Moses found himself alone with God he made two outstanding requests: (1) _For God's presence_. “If _thou_ dost not go with me, I cannot...
The command to go forward and possess the land was now repeated to the people. It is clear that the people felt that the promise of an angel to be sent before them was the lowering of a privilege. The...
And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by (m) me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: (m) In mount Horeb....
Was not this rock Christ? 1 Corinthians 10:4. Do not these cliffs mean the wounded side of Jesus, in which the church is sheltered? See Song of Solomon 2:14. By seeing the Lord in passing, doth it not...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
21._And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me _This description may illdeed appear puerile, but it is well adapted to our imperfection; nor will any despise it who is duly conscious of his own...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. We have now to examine a little what was taking place among the people, and on Moses's part, the faithful and zealous witness, as a servant of God...
AND THE LORD SAID, BEHOLD, [THERE IS] A PLACE BY ME,.... Near him, not in or by the tabernacle, where it may be the pillar of cloud now was, as it had been, Exodus 33:9 but upon the rock, where it had...
Exo. 33:18-23. Moses, when he beseeches God to show him his glory, seems to have respect to a visible glory; something to be seen with his bodily eyes, yet not exclusive of an inward sweet sense of th...
_Behold, there is a place by me_ Probably meant of some part of mount Horeb, where Moses had long enjoyed intercourse with God, and from which the tabernacle, where the cloud of glory now appeared, wa...
1 The Lord refuseth to goe as he had promised with the people. 4 The people murmure thereat. 7 The Tabernacle is remoued out of the Campe. 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses. 12 Moses desire...
And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock;...
THE LORD PROMISES HIS GRACIOUS PRESENCE...
SECOND SECTION Stricter Separation between Jehovah and the People. Removal of Moses’ Tent—the Provisional Tabernacle—out of the Camp. The Gracious Token Exodus 33:1-23 A. APPOINTMENT OF AN ANGEL TO...
TOLD TO GO WITHOUT THE LORD'S PRESENCE (vs.1-23) Again the Lord gives instructions to Moses to depart with the people to go to the land of Canaan, affirming also that He would send His angel before t...
12-23 Moses is very earnest with God. Thus, by the intercession of Christ, we are not only saved from ruin, but become entitled to everlasting happiness. Observe here how he pleads. We find grace in...
THERE IS A PLACE BY ME, in this mountain where my residence and glorious presence now is, and in that part of it whence my voice now cometh to thine ears....
Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. "I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way." At the opening of this book, wh...
Exodus 33:21 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) place H4725 stand H5324 (H8738) rock H6697 place by -...
MOSES REQUESTS TO SEE YAHWEH'S GLORY -AND DOES SO IN THE ONLY WAY THAT IS POSSIBLE EVEN TO HIM (EXODUS 33:18). Now Moses is emboldened. He has been privileged to see Yahweh more fully than any human b...
CONTENTS: The journey to be resumed. God's presence assured. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God's special presence with us in the wilderness by His Spirit and grace to direct, defend an...
Exodus 33:2. _I will send an angel:_ a created angel. Proof demonstrative that the christian fathers are all correct in declaring that the Angel of the covenant, in Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:6;...
_My face shall not be seen._ GOD’S GLORY MUST BE VEILED FROM HUMAN SIGHT If God had revealed all His glory--if He had not put the shadow of His hand upon Moses, if He had not revealed merely His skir...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:1 This chapter describes the difficult time following the golden calf episode, as the Lord says he no longer will go AMONG his people (v. Exodus 33:3
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 33:18. Thy glory] = Kebodecha, from kabod = glory, _i.e_., the mysterious essential qualities of the Deity in all their magnificence and stupendousness. Moses felt forced to ma...
EXPOSITION THE REQUEST TO SEE GOD'S GLORY, AND THE REPLY TO IT. Having obtained the full restoration of the people to God's favour, Moses felt emboldened to ask a boon for himself. He had already been...
Let's turn now to Exodus chapter thirty-three that we might continue our study through the Word of God. And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up from here, you and the people which you have br...