Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Exodus 33:4
No man did put on his ornaments This was a visible sign and profession of their inward humiliation and repentance for their sin, and of their deep sense of God's displeasure.
No man did put on his ornaments This was a visible sign and profession of their inward humiliation and repentance for their sin, and of their deep sense of God's displeasure.
5. MOSES' INTERCESSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 33 Repentance and Intercession _ 1. The word of the Lord and the people's repentance (Exodus 33:1)_ 2. The tabernacle without the camp (Exodus 33:7)...
EXODUS 33:1 J, EXODUS 33:5 E, EXODUS 33:12 J. YAHWEH'S PRESENCE. The sections of 34 have been glossed and disarranged. In Exodus 33:1 J, Yahweh's ref
HEARD. This shows Moses had descended again. man. Hebrew 'ish (App-14)....
The people strip themselves of their ornaments....
_these evil tidings_ that Jehovah would not accompany them to Canaan. _and no man_, &c. The removal of ornaments was a mark of mourning and grief: Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 26:16, Jdt 10:3 f. (Kn.)....
AND NO MAN DID PUT ON HIM HIS ORNAMENTS— The ornaments of dress have always been esteemed marks of cheerfulness and festivity. The laying aside these, and putting on sackcloth or other melancholy robe...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 33 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of E-gypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abr...
_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THESE EVIL TIDINGS, THEY MOURNED: AND NO MAN DID PUT ON HIM HIS ORNAMENTS._ When the people heard these evil tidings - from Moses on his descent from the mount. God, indeed...
THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES (CONTINUED) 6. By the mount Horeb] RV 'from mount Horeb onward': this implies that they ceased wearing their ornaments. Their humiliation was lasting. Horeb] i.e. Sinai: see...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 33 THE *ISRAELITES REALISE THEIR *SIN – VERSES 1-6 V1 Then the *LO...
WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THESE EVIL TIDINGS, THEY MOURNED. — It was something that the people felt the tidings to be “evil.” It is natural for sinful men to shrink from the near presence of God (Matthew...
XXXIII. THE HUMILIATION OF THE PEOPLE AT THE THREAT OF GOD’S WITHDRAWAL. (1-6) If God consented at all to renew His covenant with the people, after they had so flagrantly broken it, the terms on which...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֣ע הָ עָ֗ם אֶת ־הַ דָּבָ֥ר
CHAPTER XXXIII. _ PREVAILING INTERCESSION._ Exodus 33:1 At this stage the first concession is announced: Moses shall lead the people to their rest, and God will send an angel with him. We have seen...
THE ANGEL LEADER AND THE HUMAN INTERCESSOR Exodus 33:1 Moses knew that His people were forgiven, but it hurt him to hear that an angel was henceforth to lead them. See Exodus 32:34. The burden of two...
The command to go forward and possess the land was now repeated to the people. It is clear that the people felt that the promise of an angel to be sent before them was the lowering of a privilege. The...
_Ornaments. Chaldean and Syriac, "arms." They had brought jewels, &c., out of Egypt. (Menochius)_...
2 Corinthians 7:10....
"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...
4._And when the people heard these evil tidings _Hence it more clearly appears that, as I have said, it was like a thunderbolt to them when God withdrew Himself from the people; for this divorce is mo...
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 WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THESE EVIL TIDINGS,.... That God would withdraw his gracious presence, and go not up with them himself, only send an angel with them; and especially this may respect what is...
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. Ver. 4. _They mourned._] As good cause they had: for "woe be unto thee when I depart from thee." H...
1 The Lord refuseth to goe as he had promised with the people. 4 The people murmure thereat. 7 The Tabernacle is remoued out of the Campe. 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses. 12 Moses desire...
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, they showed their deep sorrow by putting on the garments of mourning; AND NO MAN DID PUT ON HIM HIS ORNAMENTS. The repentance was general an...
THE SORROW OF THE PEOPLE OVER THEIR SINS...
SECOND SECTION Stricter Separation between Jehovah and the People. Removal of Moses’ Tent—the Provisional Tabernacle—out of the Camp. The Gracious Token Exodus 33:1-23 A. APPOINTMENT OF AN ANGEL TO...
TOLD TO GO WITHOUT THE LORD'S PRESENCE (vs.1-23) Again the Lord gives instructions to Moses to depart with the people to go to the land of Canaan, affirming also that He would send His angel before t...
1-6 Those whom God pardons, must be made to know what their sin deserved. "Let them go forward as they are;" this was very expressive of God's displeasure. Though he promises to make good his covenan...
Their precious garments or jewels, which the women reserved, as we saw, EXODUS 33:3. This was a visible sign and profession of their inward humiliation and repentance for their sin, and of their deep...
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 33:4 people H5971 heard H8085 (H8799) bad H7451 news H1697 mourned H56 (H8691) one H376 put...
THE COMMAND TO GO FORWARD - THE PEOPLE REPENT (EXODUS 33:1). It is quite clear that in this passage the putting off by the children of Israel of their ornaments is a deeply significant fact. Their ear...
CONTENTS: The journey to be resumed. God's presence assured. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God's special presence with us in the wilderness by His Spirit and grace to direct, defend an...
Exodus 33:2. _I will send an angel:_ a created angel. Proof demonstrative that the christian fathers are all correct in declaring that the Angel of the covenant, in Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:6;...
_Put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee._ THE WORK OF LENT Lent is a season with a likeness to Jewish ordinances, because man in his nature and wants is ever the same;...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:1 This chapter describes the difficult time following the golden calf episode, as the Lord says he no longer will go AMONG his people (v. Exodus 33:3
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 33:18. Thy glory] = Kebodecha, from kabod = glory, _i.e_., the mysterious essential qualities of the Deity in all their magnificence and stupendousness. Moses felt forced to ma...
EXPOSITION THE THREAT OF GOD'S WITHDRAWAL, AND THE HUMILIATION OF THE PEOPLE. The intercession of Moses, and his offer to sacrifice himself for his people had obtained from God some great concessions...
Let's turn now to Exodus chapter thirty-three that we might continue our study through the Word of God. And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up from here, you and the people which you have br...
the mourned Numbers 14:1 Numbers 14:39 Hosea 7:14 Zechariah 7:3 Zechariah 7:5