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Exodus 32:7-14
Moses Intercedes for the People
Moses Intercedes for the People
Verse Exodus 32:7. _THY PEOPLE - HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES_] They had not only got into the spirit of idolatry, but they had become abominable in their conduct, so that God _disowns_ them to be his: T...
The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be made manifest whether he loved his own glory better than he loved the brethren who we...
4. ISRAEL ‘S SIN AND REBELLION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The people in rebellion (Exodus 32:1)_ 2. Jehovah threatens his wrath (Exodus 32:7) 3. Moses beseeches Jehovah (Exodus 32:11) 4. Moses descends and
EXODUS 32:1 E, EXODUS 32:7 Rje, EXODUS 32:15 E, EXODUS 32:25 J,...
THE LORD [HEBREW. _ JEHOVAH._ SAID. See note on Exodus 3:7, and cep. note on Exodus 6:10. THY... THOU. As though disowning them. Compare Moses' grand faith, in his reply, Exodus 32:11....
Jehovah makes known to Moses the people's sin. The verses are not necessarily by a different hand (R JE [218]) from _v._18 f. Moses" anger may naturally have been kindled by the spectacle of the doing...
_thy people_ not _mine_; Jehovah dissociates Himself from His sinful nation....
THY PEOPLE, WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST— That is, as being my representative; as being a _god_ unto them: see ch. Exodus 4:16 Exodus 7:1 Exodus 18:19. Moses is called, Ac
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 32 And when the people saw that Mo-ses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aar-on, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, whi...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO, GET THEE DOWN; FOR THY PEOPLE, WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES:_ Go, get thee down. Intelligence of the idolatrous scene e...
THE IDOLATRY OF THE PEOPLE 1-6. The historical narrative is here resumed from Exodus 24:18. Becoming impatient at the prolonged absence of Moses on the mount (forty days, Exodus 24:18), and despairing...
THY PEOPLE WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST OUT] By their own act the people have broken the covenant bond uniting them to Jehovah. In Exodus 32:11 Moses pleads that they are the people of Jehovah....
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 32 THE YOUNG *BULL THAT THE *ISRAELITES *WORSHIPPED – VERSES 1-35 A...
GOD’S OFFER TO MOSES. (7) THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO, GET THEE DOWN. — Moses was, of course, wholly ignorant of all that had occurred in the camp. The thick cloud which covered the top of Sinai had...
וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֑ה לֶךְ ־רֵ֕ד
CHAPTER XXXII. _ THE GOLDEN CALF._ Exodus 32:1 While God was thus providing for Israel, what had Israel done with God? They had grown weary of waiting: had despaired of and slighted their heroic lea...
AARON'S GOLDEN CALF OFFENDS THE LORD Exodus 32:1 The people never thought of taking Aaron as a substitute for Moses, because they instinctively recognized his moral weakness. Though he was dressed i...
Immediately following the account of this period of communion between Moses and God we have the record of the sin of the people. When they said, "Up, make us Gods," they were seeking something to repr...
_Thy people. They are not worthy to be styled my people; and thou didst ratify the covenant with me, in their name, and as their interpreter. They have sinned, giving way to idolatry in thought, word,...
Observe God's knowledge. Proverbs 15:3....
"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...
7._And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down_. This was a violent temptation to shake the faith of Moses. He thought that his own and the people’s happiness was absolutely complete, when God’s c...
Whilst God was thus preparing the precious things connected with His relationship with His people [1], the people, only thinking of what they saw in the human instrument of their deliverance, complete...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO, GET THEE DOWN,.... In Deuteronomy 9:12 it is added, "quickly", and so the Septuagint version here: this was said after the Lord had finished his discourse with him, a...
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]: Ver. 7. _For thy people, which thou broughtest._] God wil...
1 The people in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calfe. 7 God is angred thereby. 11 At the intreatie of Moses he is appeased. 15 Moses commeth downe with the Tables. 19 He breaketh them...
THIRD DIVISION The legislation as modified by the lapse of the people, and the intensified distinction between Jehovah and Israel as expressed in the more hierarchical constitution of the theocracy...
THE GOLDEN CALF (vs.1-6) Moses forty days in the mount (the number of testing) was too much for the impatient children of Israel. They gathered to Aaron in united determination to have some substitut...
7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. Th...
No longer _my people_, as God had called them hitherto, EXODUS 3:7, EXODUS 5:1, &c.; they have forsaken me, and I do hereby renounce them....
We have now to contemplate something very different from that Which has hitherto engaged our attention. " The pattern of things in the heavens," has been before us Christ in His glorious Person, graci...
Exodus 32:7 LORD H3068 said H1696 (H8762) Moses H4872 Go H3212 (H8798) down H3381 (H8798) people...
YAHWEH INFORMS MOSES OF WHAT IS HAPPENING BELOW (EXODUS 32:7). a Yahweh said to Moses, “Go, get yourself down, for your people whom you brought up out of Egypt have corrupted themselves (Exodus 32:7...
Exodus 32:7. _And the LORD said unto Moses, Go get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:_ See how Jehovah will not own these idolaters...
Exodus 32:1. _And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before u...
CONTENTS: The broken law; Israel worships a golden calf. Intercession of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Joshua. CONCLUSION: It is a great sin to make gold, or anything else, a god, as those d...
Exodus 32:1. _Unto Aaron._ Some copies read, the people gathered themselves together _against_ Aaron. He sinned through fear of man; but as the Lord did not punish him with the revolters, the latter w...
EXODUS 32:1 Covenant Breach, Intercession, and Renewal. This section illustrates Israel’s need for sanctification from the Lord. ⇐ ⇔
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 32:7_ INTERCESSION Consider— I. THE SIN AND PERIL OF ISRAEL. Their sin was the more grievous because it came after such wonderful manifestations of God’s p...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 32:1. Zeh Mosheh häish = this Moses _the man_]. The Israelites, thinking that “the man” who brought them out of the land of Egypt had acted the part of a truant, and that they...
EXPOSITION THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES. Moses, in Sinai, was so far removed from the camp, and the cloud so shut out his vision of it, that he had neither seen nor heard anything unusual, and was wholly...
Now when the people saw that Moses had delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered to Aaron, and they said unto him, Get up, and make us gods, that shall go before us; for as for Moses, we do...
go Exodus 19:24 Exodus 33:1 Deuteronomy 9:12 Daniel 9:24 thy people Exodus 32