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Exodus 23:20

an angel such as guided and protected the patriarchs (Genesis 24:7; Genesis 31:11; Genesis 48:16); cf. Exodus 14:19 (on Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2, see the notes), Numbers 20:16. It is true, the expression here used is - anangel" (so Numbers 20:16: contrast ch. Exodus 3:2); but he appears in v.21 as Jehovah's full representative (see on Exodus 3:2). Elsewhere in JE the pillar of cloud (see on Exodus 13:21), Hobab (Numbers 10:31), and the ark (Numbers 10:33), are severally described as guiding Israel in the wilderness.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 23:20. _BEHOLD, I SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE_] Some have thought that this was _Moses_, others _Joshua_, because the word מלאך _malach_ signifies an _angel_ or _messenger_; but as it is s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AN ANGEL - See Exodus 3:2, Exodus 3:8; Joshua 5:13; Isaiah 63:9....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 FURTHER JUDGMENTS AND DIRECTIONS _ 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1)_ 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 23:20 E. CLOSING DISCOURSE (Exodus 23:23 a, Exodus 23:27, and Exodus 23:31 b -...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6) for emphasis. an angel. It is Elohim speaking, therefore, who can it be but Micha-el? Compare Daniel 10:13; Daniel 10:21; Daniel 12:1.

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 94 THE DANGER OF WILFUL AND OBSTINATE DISOBEDIENCE Exodus 23:20. Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, I SEND AN ANGEL— This might as well be rendered, _the Angel_ or _Messenger._ Houbigant, after the Samaritan, the LXX, and the Vulgate, reads _my Angel,_ as in Exodus 23:23. Who he was, appears...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BEHOLD, I SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE, TO KEEP THEE IN THE WAY, AND TO BRING THEE INTO THE PLACE WHICH I HAVE PREPARED._ Behold, I send an Angel before thee. The word "Behold" introduces a new paragra...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    On the Angel of Jehovah, see on Exodus 3:2....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 23 LAWS ABOUT HOW TO BE FAIR AND HOW TO BE KIND – VERSES 1-9 V1 Th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE. — Kalisch considers Moses to have been the “angel” or “messenger;” others understand one of the created angelic host. But most commentators see in the promise the first me...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE PROMISES OF GOD TO ISRAEL, IF THE COVENANT IS KEPT. (20-33) The Book of the Covenant terminates, very appropriately, with a series of promises. God is “the rewarder of them that diligently seek hi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י שֹׁלֵ֤חַ מַלְאָךְ֙ לְ פָנֶ֔יךָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PART V.--ITS SANCTIONS. Exodus 23:20. This summary of Judaism being now complete, the people have to learn what mighty issues are at stake upon their obedience. And the transition is very striking fr...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PROMISE OF ENTRANCE INTO CANAAN Exodus 23:18 This Angel must have been the Lord himself, for Stephen said expressly that the Angel was with Moses at the burning bush, where Jehovah revealed Himself,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Angel; my only son. (Philo) --- St. Paul says, they tempted Jesus Christ, (1 Corinthians x. 9,) who is styled, the angel of the covenant, Malachias iii. 1. Some apply this to Josue, others to St. Mic...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! call to mind at the reading of this verse, what Jesus said, Moses wrote of me; an d then determine for yourself, whether this were not he of whom Moses and the Prophets did write, Jesus of Naz...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    20._Behold, I send an Angel before thee. _God here reminds the Israelites that their wellbeing is so connected with the keeping of the Law, that, by neglecting it, they would sorely suffer. For He say...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE,.... Not a created angel, but the uncreated one, the Angel of God's presence, that was with the Israelites at Sinai, and in the wilderness; who saved, redeemed, bor...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Ver. 20. _Behold, I send an Angel,_] i.e., Christ. Immediately after God had give...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 23:20-23. God says of this angel, "My name is in Him." God had a little before, from this same Mount Sinai, declared to Moses with very great solemnity that He might thereby make Him known to the...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 23:20. "Behold, I send an angel before thee," etc. This does not seem to be the same angel spoken of in the 33d chap. which was a created angel, but the Son of God; for what was spoken here befor...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I send an Angel before thee_ The Angel of the covenant: accordingly, the Israelites, in the wilderness, are said to _tempt Christ._ It is promised that this blessed Angel should _keep them in...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. This special guiding and protecting Angel was the Son of God Himself, for in Him Jeh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING THE CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNEY...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-33 It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise, Behold, I send an angel before thee, mine angel. The precept joined with this...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    To wit, Christ, the Angel of the covenant, as may be gathered both from the following words, because pardon of sin, which is God's prerogative, MARK 2:7, is here ascribed to him, and God's _name is in...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 23:20 send H7971 (H8802) Angel H4397 before H6440 keep H8104 (H8800) way H1870 bring H935 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S PROMISE THAT HE WILL SEND HIS ANGEL WITH THEM (EXODUS 23:20). Yahweh now confirms that He will go with His people into Canaan. This section may be analysed as follows: a Yahweh will send H...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 23:20 The Angel, the way, the prepared place. It is the Divine key to the mystery of life. Life is emphatically a way. Not by the way of the sea a prompt and easy path but by the way of the wi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning the conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it lay through...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning of this and the former verse is, there sha...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _To bring thee into the place which I have prepared._ LIFE’S PILGRIMAGE The angel, the way, the prepared place. It is the Divine key to the mystery of life. Life is emphatically a way. Not by the wa...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 23:20 The ANGEL who will go before Israel is closely identified with God himself: MY NAME IS IN HIM implies God’s nature and character; to OBEY HIS VOICE is t

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 23:20_ DIVINE GUIDANCE I. THERE IS A DIVINE WAY. There is a divine way for individuals. Joseph, Abraham, Daniel, and David were led in the right way. The sa...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_. EXPOSITION EXODUS 23:1 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS—_continued_. The same want of logical arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preceding one. The first nine ve...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    angel Exodus 3:2 Exodus 14:19 Exodus 32:34 Exodus 33:2 Exodus 33:14...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Behold, I send an angel before thee — The angel of the covenant: Accordingly the Israelites in the wilderness are said to tempt Christ. It is promised that this blessed anger should keep them in the w...

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