Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Exodus 34:9
This yearning struggle after assurance is like the often-repeated utterance of the heart, when it receives a blessing beyond its hopes, “can this be real?”
This yearning struggle after assurance is like the often-repeated utterance of the heart, when it receives a blessing beyond its hopes, “can this be real?”
Verse Exodus 34:9. _O LORD, LET MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, GO AMONG US_] The original is not יהוה _Jehovah_, but אדני _Adonai_ in both these places, and seems to refer particularly to the Angel of the Cove...
CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY _ 1. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ 2. The proclamation of Jehovah (Exodus 34:5) 3. Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus...
EXODUS 34:1 J. THE COVENANT WORDS. After removing Exodus 34:5, the sublime account of the revelation of Yahweh's nature as mercy and truth in their unity, which follows on Exodus 33:23, the remainder...
LORD... MY LORD. Hebrew. _Adonai, Adonai._ But this is one of the 134 places where Jehovah was altered to Adonai by the Sopherim. See App-32. FOR, &c. The moment Jehovah speaks of grace, Moses turns...
Jehovah's -ways" (Exodus 33:13) and character having now been disclosed to Moses, he again entreats Jehovah, who is ready to forgive (_v._7a), to pardon His people's sin, and give proof that He has ag...
AND HE SAID, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT— This verse might be rendered, _and he said, since now I have found grace in thy sight, let my LORD,_ אדני _adoni_ [an unquestionable name or title...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou...
_AND HE SAID, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, O LORD, LET MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, GO AMONG US; FOR IT IS A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE; AND PARDON OUR INIQUITY AND OUR SIN, AND TAKE US FOR THINE INHERITA...
THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant relation with them. The conditions are the same as before. The Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 34 THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GOD’S *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM – VERSES 1-9...
THE COVENANT RENEWED, AND THE DECALOGUE A SECOND TIME GIVEN. (9) IF NOW, I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT. — Rather, _Since now, &c._ The evidences of God’s favour towards him — which Moses had now exp...
וַ יֹּ֡אמֶר אִם ־נָא֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּ
CHAPTER XXXIV. _ THE VISION OF GOD._ Exodus 34:1 It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask,...
THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED Exodus 34:1 Before we can behold the vision of Eternal Love we must be willing to fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: “My soul, be ready in the morning.” (2) _S...
Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was made to him. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His me...
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; (b) for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inh...
(_ For it, &c.) If thou do not support me, I shall not be able to govern. (Haydock) --- Possess us. Take us for thy peculiar inheritance. (Menochius)_...
Isa_48:4; Isa_48:8-11....
"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...
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 HE SAID, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT,.... Or "seeing now", for he could have no doubt upon his mind but that he had found grace and favour in the sight of God, since he had caused his g...
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inherit...
_And he said, I pray thee go among us_ Thus Moses prays for the things God had already promised, not as doubting the sincerity of God's grants, but as one solicitous for the ratification of them. But...
1 The Tables are renued. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the first Table. 28 Moses afte...
And he said, If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; he pleaded for the personal presence of God in the midst of the people; FOR IT IS A STILF-NECKED PEO...
THE GLORIOUS VISION...
THIRD SECTION The New Tables of the Law for the People prone to a Hierarchy. Clearer Revelation of God’s Grace. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. Stricter Commands concerning the Passover, the First-b...
THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-28) Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never came into the camp. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. This would have meant death...
5-9 The Lord descended by some open token of his presence and manifestation of his glory in a cloud, and thence proclaimed his NAME; that is, the perfections and character which are denoted by the na...
IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE, and therefore need thy glorious and powerful presence to rule them. Or rather, THOUGH IT BE A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE, as thou sayest, yet forsake them not. The Hebrew particl...
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 34:9 said H559 (H8799) found H4672 (H8804) grace H2580 sight H5869 Lord H136 Lord H136 go...
THE RESPONSE OF MOSES ON BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND THE PEOPLE (EXODUS 34:8). Exodus 34:8 ‘And Moses reacted with great haste and bowed his head towards the earth and worshipped. And he said, “If now I h...
CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. The new vision and commission. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). We cannot expect the benefit of God's promises unless we make conscie...
Exodus 34:1. _I will write upon these tables. Deuteronomy 10:4_. The Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. In the last clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 34:8_ GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIS PEOPLE The revelation of the Divine name was almost too much for Moses, it was so unmerited. He was lost in wonder and adorati...
EXPOSITION THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. Dazed, as it would seem, by the splendour of the vision which he had beheld, Moses forgot that God had already pledged himself to renew the covenant, and lead...
And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And be ready in the...
if now Exodus 33:13 Exodus 33:17 let my Lord Exodus 33:14 Matthew 28:20 stiff-necked...
And he said, I pray thee go among us — For thy presence is all to our safety and success. And pardon our iniquity and our sin — Else we cannot expect thee to go among us. And take us for thine inherit...