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Exodus 32:1-35

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

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXXII _The Israelites, finding that Moses delayed his return, desire_ _Aaron to make them gods to go before them_, 1. _Aaron consents, and requires their ornaments_, 2. _They deliver them...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    In all probability these three chapters originally formed a distinct composition. The main incidents recorded in them follow in the order of time, and are therefore in their proper place as regards hi...

  • 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

    DELAYED. put them to shame by his not coming down. Compare Psalms 44:7; Psalms 53:5; Psalms 119:3. OUT OF. from. MAKE US GODS. The great sin of to-day ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _delayed_ Heb. _caused shame_(i.e. disappointment): the same idiom, Judges 5:28 (lit. -Why doth his chariot _put to shame_in coming?"). _to Aaron_ who had been left below by Moses (Exodus 24:14). _Up...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT MOSES— The long delay of Moses in the mount led this ever-murmuring and incredulous generation to think that he had utterly forsaken them; that an attempt to go forward in...

  • 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 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 US; FOR AS FOR...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    32:1 god, (a-29) Or 'gods.' Heb. _ elohim_ . similarly vers. 4,8,23,31....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNTO AARON] Aaron and Hur had been left in charge by Moses; see Exodus 24:14. MAKE US GODS] RM 'a god.' The Hebrew word for God has a plural form. In making this demand it is doubtful whether the peop...

  • 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...

  • 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

    XXXII. THE IDOLATRY OF THE GOLDEN CALF. (1) WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED TO COME DOWN. — After seven Chapter s of directions, which belong to the Mosaic or Levitical Law, the writer here res...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֣רְא הָ עָ֔ם כִּֽי ־בֹשֵׁ֥שׁ מֹשֶׁ֖ה

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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, (a) make us gods, which shall go before us; for [a...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Delayed. They waited perhaps about a month, with some patience; and then, becoming seditious, assembled against Aaron, and extorted from him a compliance with their impious request. He was thus guilty...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This is a most interesting Chapter, but no less distressing to read. We have therein related to us, that God, by his divine foreknowledge, having seen, that in consequence of Moses being with...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _SUBSTITUTES FOR GOD_ ‘Gods which shall go before us.’ Exodus 32:1 We see that the Israelites’ residence in Egypt had familiarised them with the idea of _ symbols for God_, so that there was no str...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1_And when the people saw that Moses_. In this narrative we perceive the detestable impiety of the people, their worse than base ingratitude, and their monstrous madness, mixed with stupidity. For the...

  • 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 WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED TO COME DOWN OUT OF THE MOUNT,.... The time, according to the Targum of Jonathan, being elapsed, which he had fixed for his descent, and through a misreckoni...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 us; for [as for...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 32, 33, 34. There are many things in the circumstances of this second giving of the law that we have an account of in these Chapter s, that are arguments that these two transactions did represent...

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

    _The people_ That is, some of them, as it is explained 1 Corinthians 10:7. The defection, however, appears to have been very general, though we find several, particularly the sons of Levi, exempt from...

  • 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

    And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the text implies that they had waited for his return in vain, and therefore foolishly concluded that he had forsaken them, THE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GOLDEN CALF...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 While Moses was in the mount, receiving the law from God, the people made a tumultuous address to Aaron. This giddy multitude were weary of waiting for the return of Moses. Weariness in waiting b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EXODUS CHAPTER 32 The people commit idolatry by worshipping the molten image which Aaron made, EXODUS 32:1. God makes it known to Moses, and threatens their destruction, EXO 32 7-10. Moses prays for t...

  • 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 32:1 people H5971 saw H7200 (H8799) Moses H4872 delayed H954 (H8765) down H3381 (H8800) mountain...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE'S REBELLION AND THE MOLTEN CALF (EXODUS 32:1). While Moses was in the Mount for forty days and forty nights receiving his instructions from Yahweh, the people waiting in the plain below bec...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 32:1 Notice: I. The very essence of idolatry is not spiritual ignorance and obtuseness, but a wilful turning away from the spiritual knowledge and worship of God. (1) This act of idolatry was...

  • 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

    _Up, make us gods._ IDOLATRY I. The very essence of idolatry is not spiritual ignorance and obtuseness, but a wilful turning away from the spiritual knowledge and worship of God. 1. This act of ido...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE IDOLATRY OF THE GOLDEN CALF. During the absence of Moses in Mount Sinai, an absence of nearly six weeks, the Israelites grew impatient, and regarding their leader as lost to them, and t...

  • 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

    A.M. 2513, B.C. 1491. An.Ex.Is.1Ab. delayed Exodus 24:18 Deuteronomy 9:9 Matthew 24:43 2 Peter 3:4 up...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Up, make us gods which shall go before us. They were weary of waiting for the promised land. They thought themselves detained too long at mount Sinai. They had a God that stayed with them, but they mu...

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