Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 32:17
Joshua had waited all this while upon the middle of the hill for Moses's return; and so neither knew what the people had done, nor heard what God had said to Moses.
Joshua had waited all this while upon the middle of the hill for Moses's return; and so neither knew what the people had done, nor heard what God had said to Moses.
Verse Exodus 32:17. _JOSHUA - SAID - _THERE IS _A NOISE OF WAR IN THE CAMP._] How natural was this thought to the mind of a military man! Hearing a confused noise he supposed that the Israelitish camp...
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,...
_Joshua_ whom Moses had left on the lower part of the mountain (Exodus 24:13), and whom he must be supposed to have now rejoined....
Moses" return to the camp. His punishment of the people for their sin....
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 WHEN JOSHUA HEARD THE NOISE OF THE PEOPLE AS THEY SHOUTED, HE SAID UNTO MOSES, THERE IS A NOISE OF WAR IN THE CAMP._ Joshua. He had remained under the trees on the higher level-the plain whence...
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...
JOSHUA] see on Exodus 24:15....
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...
WHEN JOSHUA HEARD. — Joshua’s presence with Moses in the mount has not been indicated since Exodus 24:13. But it would seem that when Moses was summoned up into the cloud (Exodus 24:16) his faithful “...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֧ע יְהֹושֻׁ֛עַ אֶת ־קֹ֥ול הָ עָ֖ם
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...
MOSES BREAKS THE TABLES AND BURNS THE CALF Exodus 32:15 There was no weak compromise on the part of Moses. He cast the tables from his hands as though he felt that the covenant between God and the He...
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...
_Josue, who was waiting for Moses lower down on the mountain, chap. xxiv. 13._...
2 Corinthians 12:2. Those who are much in communion with God will, on their return to the world, feel somewhat like this, from not being conversant with such language....
"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...
17._And when Joshua heard the noise of the people _This is introduced to inform us how intemperately the people raged in their insane worship of the calf, since their shouting was heard from afar. It...
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 WHEN JOSHUA HEARD THE NOISE OF THE PEOPLE, AS THEY SHOUTED,.... Dancing about the calf: when Moses went up into the mount, Joshua went with him, and tarried in a lower part of the mount all the fo...
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp. Ver. 17. _And when Joshua._] Who had waited, in some part of the mount, the r...
_Joshua said, There is a noise of war in the camp_ Joshua had waited upon the middle of the hill for Moses, and so neither knew what the people had done, nor heard what God had said to Moses....
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...
THE WRATH OF MOSES...
And when. Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. It was characteristic of the soldier that his thoughts were engaged with matter...
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...
15-20 What a change it is, to come down from the mount of communion with God, to converse with a wicked world. In God we see nothing but what is pure and pleasing; in the world nothing but what is sin...
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 32:17 Joshua H3091 heard H8085 (H8799) noise H6963 people H5971 shouted H7452 said H559 (H8799) Moses...
MOSES DESCENDS AND WITNESSES WHAT IS HAPPENING AND ACTS DECISIVELY TO BRING MATTERS UNDER CONTROL (EXODUS 32:15). a Moses turns and descends with the tablets of the Covenant in His hands, which were...
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 32:15_ THE TRUTH GIVEN AND LOST We contemplate— I. THE TRUTH GIVEN, EXODUS 31 : Exodus 32:18. 1. The highest truth was _given_ to man. That truth could n...
EXPOSITION MOSES BREAKS THE TWO TABLES. The entire conference between God and Moses being now ended, Moses hastened to descend from the mount, and interpose in the crisis that had arisen, he took care...
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...
Joshua had waited patiently during all the forty days, in the Exodus 17:9 Exodus 24:13 they shouted Exodus 32:18 Ezra 3:11...