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Exodus 20:4
Why did God command His people not to make carved images when He directed them to carve two cherubs for the Ark of the Covenant? (See comments on Exodus 25:18)
Why did God command His people not to make carved images when He directed them to carve two cherubs for the Ark of the Covenant? (See comments on Exodus 25:18)
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT Against _making_ and _worshipping images_. Verse Exodus 20:4. _THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE_] As the word פסל _pasal_ signifies to _hew_, _carve, grave_, c....
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4. It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Commandmen
CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED _ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_ 2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18) This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First orally here,...
EXODUS 20-24, 34. THE CODES IN EXODUS. Recent study has by many converging lines of argument, based on subject matter, choice of words, relation to the context, idiomatic phrasing, comparison with the...
II. THE LORD. EALOUS GOD. 4. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE. After declaring in the first commandment who was the true God, he commanded that he alone should be worshiped, and now be defines wh...
MAKE. The making is equally forbidden as the worshipping. GRAVEN IMAGE. Hebrew. _pesel,_. sculpture. First occurance....
_a graven image_ an image of carved wood (sometimes enclosed in a metal casing, Isaiah 30:22) or stone, such as were common in antiquity, and are so, of course, still among heathen nations. Cf. Deuter...
The _second_commandment, against image-worship. The prohibition is general; and includes both images of Jehovah, who, as a spiritual Being, cannot be represented by any material likeness (see the deve...
THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE— The _having_ or worshipping any kind of false gods, is absolutely forbidden in the first commandment. Here the _mode_ of worshipping them, which general...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, (2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of E-gypt, out of the house of bondage. (3) Thou shalt have no ot...
_THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANY THING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH:_ Thou shalt not make u...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and call...
If the first commandment implies the truth of God's unity, the second implies that of His spirituality. Israel is forbidden to worship even the true God under any external form. God is not like anythi...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 20 GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17 V1 God spoke all these wor...
THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE. — The two main clauses of the second commandment are to be read together, so as to form one sentence: “Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, &c....
לֹֽ֣א תַֽעֲשֶׂ֨ה ־לְךָ֥֣ פֶ֣֨סֶל֙ ׀ וְ כָל ־ת
THE “TEN WORDS” SPOKEN AT SINAI Exodus 20:1 The Law was given by the disposition of angels, through the medium of Moses. See John 1:17; Acts 7:53. It tells us, not what God is, for that is only shown...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
A graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, &c. All such images or likenesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be adored and served; according to that which immediately follows, t...
These verses contain the second commandment, in which the ordinances of divine worship are pointed out, the prohibition of all creature adoration, and the reasons on which the worship of God alone is...
"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...
_NO GRAVEN IMAGE_ ‘Thou shalt not make … any graven image,’ etc. Exodus 20:4 I. THE PRIMARY MEANING OF THIS COMMANDMENT NO LONGER NEEDS ENFORCEMENT.—There is no longer any disposition to worship Je...
4._Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. _In the First Commandment, after He had taught who was the true God, He commanded that He alone should e worshipped; and now He defines what is His L...
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...
THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE,.... An image of anything graven by art or man's device, cut out of wood of stone, and so anything that was molten, or cast into a mould or form, engrave...
_Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:_ Ver. 4. _Thou...
Exo. 20:4. "Any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above" - _i.e., _ the likeness of sun, moon, or stars, or any bird; [or "that is in the earth beneath"] - _i.e.,_ of any man, woman, beast, or c...
Exo. 20:3-7. The three first commandments. The first commandment respects the object of worship; and especially forbids those things in worship that are against _God the Father._ The second commandmen...
The first commandment is concerning the _object of our worship, Jehovah_, and him only: _Thou shalt have no other gods before me_ The Egyptians, and other neighbouring nations, had many gods, creature...
1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be. 1 AND God spake all these words, saying, 2 [NOTE: Deut...
THE DECALOGUE...
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, a carved or sculptured idol, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING, any representation that is intended for religious worship, THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, birds or s...
SECOND SECTION The Threefold Law of the Covenant for the Covenant People on the Basis of the Prophetic, Ethico-religious Divine Law of the Ten Commandments. Historical Prophecy Exodus 20-31 A. THE T...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in delivering...
3-11 The first four of the ten commandments, commonly called the FIRST table, tell our duty to God. It was fit that those should be put first, because man had a Maker to love, before he had a neighbo...
THOU SHALT NOT MAKE, either in thy mind, or with thy hand, ACTS 17:29, or by thy command. UNTO THEE, i.e. for thy use, or for thee to worship; for otherwise they were not absolutely forbidden to make...
It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
Exodus 20:4 make H6213 (H8799) image H6459 likeness H8544 that H834 heaven H8064 above H4605 earth H776 water...
SHALT NOT MAKE There is a threefold giving of the law. First, orally, in (Exodus 20:1). This was pure law, with no provision of priesthood and sacrifice for failure, and was accompanied by the "judgm...
Exodus 20:4 The First Commandment condemns the worshipping of false gods; the Second condemns the making of any image or symbol even of the true God. I. It would have been natural for the Jews to do...
Exodus 20:1. _And God spake all these words saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me._ God...
CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards. Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
_Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them._ THE LAW OF WORSHIP I. A revelation of the will of God. 1. What is forbidden is not the culture of the plastic arts, but their abuse in fur...
EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7) and includes: the Ten Commandments ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 20:4 YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF A CARVED IMAGE. The Lord commands Israel not to craft an image of anything in HEAVEN or EARTH for worship. This is because t
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 20:4_ THE SECOND COMMANDMENT The Being and Spirituality of God seem to be among the most simple ideas of which the human mind is susceptible; and yet they h...
EXPOSITION THE DELIVERY OF THE MORAL LAW. Every necessary preparation had now been made. The priests, as well as the people, had "sanctified themselves." A wholesome dread of "breaking" through the fe...
And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1), Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments of God. I am...
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Exodus 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to this study we wish to answer some statements relative to the Christian and the Law. 1. SAINTS ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW FOR SALVA...
BREAKING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Exodus 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have today a study on the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were written upon two tables of stone. The first four, written on one...