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Exodus 32:11

besought properly, as Arabic seems to shew, - made sweetthe face of," fig. for, entreated, sought to conciliate: a frequent idiom, e.g. 1Sa 13:12, 1 Kings 13:6; Jeremiah 26:19; with a human object, Psalms 45:12; Proverbs 19:6; Job 11:19. In the prayer which follows, Moses urges fourmotives for mercy: (1) Israel is Jehovah's people; (2) its deliverance has demanded the exertion of great power; (3) the mockery of the Egyptians, if it now perish; (4) the oath to the forefathers. Cf. the intercession in Numbers 14:13-19.

a mighty hand See on Exodus 3:19.

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See also Exodus 32:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 32:1 E, EXODUS 32:7 Rje, EXODUS 32:15 E, EXODUS 32:25 J,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew "the face of Jehovah": i.e. before, or in the presence of Jehovah. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THY... THOU. This is the reply of Moses. He knows they were not "cast off" (Romans 11...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MOSES BESOUGHT THE LORD—AND SAID— This intercession of Moses for the people, reminds us of that of Abraham for the devoted Sodomites, Genesis 18. The reason why God's wrath waxed hot against his peopl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND MOSES BESOUGHT THE LORD HIS GOD, AND SAID, LORD, WHY DOTH THY WRATH WAX HOT AGAINST THY PEOPLE, WHICH THOU HAST BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH GREAT POWER, AND WITH A MIGHTY HAND?_...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    In a spirit of noble generosity Moses effaces himself and intercedes with all his soul for the people. See on Exodus 32:31. He does not minimise their sin (cp. Exodus 32:31), but with a holy boldness...

  • 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 32 THE YOUNG *BULL THAT THE *ISRAELITES *WORSHIPPED – VERSES 1-35 A...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOSES’ REPLY, AND GOD’S “REPENTANCE.” (11-13) Moses has three arguments: (1) God has done so much for His people, that surely He will not now make all of none effect (Exodus 32:11); (2) their destruct...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְחַ֣ל מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת ־פְּנֵ֖י יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Why, &c. Calvin here accuses Moses of arrogance, in prescribing laws to God's justice. But St. Jerome (ep. ad Gaud.) commends his charity and "prayer, which hindered God's power." (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we lose sight of Moses in this place, in order to behold him whom Moses typified, even the Lord Jesus Christ, in his glorious character of intercessor, this passage is uncommonly beautiful. Isaiah...

  • 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

    11._And Moses besought the Lord his God _It is clear that this prayer sprang from faith, though in it he seems to fight against the very word of God; for God had said, Get thee down to thy people; but...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND MOSES BESOUGHT THE LORD HIS GOD,.... As the Lord was the God of Moses, his covenant God, and he had an interest in him, he made use of it in favour of the people of Israel: AND SAID, WHY DOTH THY...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Ve...

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

    _And Moses besought the Lord his God_ If God would not be called the God of Israel, yet he hoped he might address him as his own God. Now Moses is standing in the gap to turn away the wrath of God, Ps...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MOSES INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Moses besought the Lord, his God, he showed himself the real priestly advocate of the people. The prospect of being the progenitor of a great nation held no allurements for him, as he began to ple...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE LORD: _ Heb._ the face of the LORD...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD HIS GOD; emphatically so called: q.d. Moses had not lost his interest in God, though Israel had. WHY DOTH THY WRATH WAX HOT, so hot as to consume them utterly? For though he saw reason enough...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 32:11 Moses H4872 pleaded H2470 (H8762) with H6440 LORD H3068 God H430 said H559 (H8799) LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Moses besought the Lord._ THE INTERCESSION We find him in succession-- 1. Highly privileged. 2. Deeply grieved. 3. Raised to a holy frame of mind. 4. Visibly answered. 5. Abundantly strengthen...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 32:11 In his intercession, Moses uses the Lord’s own words when he refers to Israel as “YOUR PEOPLE” (see v. Exodus 32:7)....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS 32:1 Covenant Breach, Intercession, and Renewal. This section illustrates Israel’s need for sanctification from the Lord. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    besought Deuteronomy 9:18 Deuteronomy 9:26 Psalms 106:23 the Lord his God. Heb. the face of the Lord. why doth Numbers 11:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And Moses besought the Lord his God — If God would not be called the God of Israel, yet he hoped he might address him as his own God. Now Moses is standing in the gap to turn away the wrath of God. Ps...

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