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Exodus 33:12-23
The Lord Promises his Gracious Presence
The Lord Promises his Gracious Presence
Verse Exodus 33:12. _MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD_] We may suppose that after Moses had quitted the tabernacle he went to the camp, and gave the people some general information relative to the conversatio...
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
WHOM. As promised in Exodus 32:34. BY NAME. Compare Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 49:1. In the presence of corporate failure all is individual, compare...
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 complains to Jehovah that He has not treated him with the confidence that He had given him reason to expect. _Bring up_ viz. into Canaan, like -go up," _v._1. So _carry up, v._15. _whom thou wi...
DISCOURSE: 109 PAST MERCIES PLEADED BEFORE GOD Exodus 33:12. _Thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy...
AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD— Moses having received, as we may suppose, sufficient proofs of the contrition of the people for their abominable idolatry, now returns to the tabernacle, and renews his i...
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...
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD, SEE, THOU SAYEST UNTO ME, BRING UP THIS PEOPLE: AND THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME. YET THOU HAST SAID, I KNOW THEE BY NAME, AND THOU HAST ALSO FO...
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...
THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW] The whole of this passage from Exodus 33:7 may be independent of what goes before (cp. the expression 'used to take' in Exodus 33:7). Otherwise we must suppose that Moses ha...
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...
THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW WHOM THOU WILT SEND. — Moses finds the promises of Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2 ambiguous. What is meant by “mine angel” and “an angel?” Is it the “Angel” of Exodus 23:20, or no...
MOSES OBTAINS A RENEWAL OF GOD’S PROMISE TO GO UP WITH THE PEOPLE. (12-17) The self-humiliation of the people (Exodus 33:4) had appeased God’s anger. He was now ready to be entreated. Moses therefore...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶל ־יְהוָ֗ה רְ֠אֵה אַתָּ
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 Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by (e) name, and thou hast also...
To the Lord. This conversation probably took place on Mount Horeb, (ver. 22,) after God had threatened that he would not go up with the people, chap. xxxii. 34. And here (ver. 3,) Moses, considering t...
Reader! I charge it upon you that you keep in view him whom Moses represented, through the whole of this most interesting interview. Is it not by him, whom the Father heareth always, every token of di...
"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...
12._See, thou, sayest unto me, Bring up this people _Moses is still diligently engaged in endeavoring to reconcile the people, for the fuller promise was inserted by way of anticipation. Since the rev...
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 MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD,.... Having returned from the camp to the tabernacle again; SEE, THOU SAYEST UNTO ME, BRING UP THIS PEOPLE: from hence to the land of Canaan, as in Exodus 33:1 AND THOU...
And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also fou...
_And Moses said unto the Lord_ It is likely that Moses, being satisfied with the penitence of the people, returned to the tabernacle, and there had this communication with God, in which he is an impor...
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...
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...
WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME, i.e. what angel it is, whether it be a created angel, for then I profess I am unsatisfied with him, EXODUS 33:15; or the same uncreated Angel Christ, who hath hitherto acc...
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 33:12 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 See H7200 (H8798) say H559 (H8802) up...
MOSES WRESTLES WITH YAHWEH ABOUT HIS DECISION NOT TO GO WITH THEM (EXODUS 33:12). The general fact about Moses' relationship with God having been made clear, Moses now comes to Yahweh to plead for a r...
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;...
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
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:12 God has promised to send an “angel” to lead his rebellious people into the land (v. Exodus 33:2), but Moses demands that the Lord himself go with them (v....
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 REVOCATION OF THE THREAT OF WITHDRAWAL. After some days' "wrestling with God" in the "tent of meeting," Moses prayed to know definitely what God had determined on. "Show me thy way," he...
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...
see Exodus 33:1 Exodus 32:34 I know Exodus 33:17 Genesis 18:19 Psalms 1:6...
Moses now returned to the door of the tabernacle, as an important supplicant for two favours, and prevails for both: herein he was a type of Christ the great intercessor, whom the Father heareth alway...