Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Exodus 20:25
not... hewn stone. No human handiwork tc be used in approaching God in worship. tool. Man's work, in this sphere, pollutes.
not... hewn stone. No human handiwork tc be used in approaching God in worship. tool. Man's work, in this sphere, pollutes.
Verse Exodus 20:25. _THOU SHALT NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE_] Because they were now in a wandering state, and had as yet no fixed residence; and therefore no time should be wasted to rear costly altar...
Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for the building of altars must have been old and accepted, and a...
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 20:22 E. LAWS OF WORSHIP. This begins the Book of the Covenant, a small collection of religious and moral laws. The reference to God as talking with the people from heaven (Exodus 20:22_ b)_ wa...
Altars were to be of the simplest material, of earth, or, if of stone, of unhewn stone: they might be erected wherever Jehovah gave occasion for His name to be commemorated; and any Israelite might sa...
Altars, their construction, and the places at which they may be erected....
_tool_ The word (_ḥéreb_) commonly rendered -sword," occasionally used of other sharp instruments, Joshua 5:2-3 (-knives"): in Deuteronomy 27:5 E (Joshua 8:31) the word is replaced by -iron." Cf. 1Ma...
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
The collection opens with directions respecting the manner which God is to be worshipped (other directions about religious observances follow in Exodus 22:20; Exodus 22:29-31; Exodus 23:10-19)....
AND IF THOU WILT MAKE ME AN ALTAR OF STONE, &C.— The Lord will have an altar of _turf,_ or _natural stone,_ not put together with much art. _For if thou lift up thy tool upon it,_ it is added, _thou h...
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...
_AND IF THOU WILT MAKE ME AN ALTAR OF STONE, THOU SHALT NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE: FOR IF THOU LIFT UP THY TOOL UPON IT, THOU HAST POLLUTED IT._ IF THOU WILT MAKE ME AN ALTAR OF STONE ... NOT ... OF...
See on Exodus 20:24....
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT This section comprises a number of laws designed to regulate the life of an agricultural community living under comparatively simple conditions. The laws are mainly of a civil...
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...
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...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT. (22-26) In the remainder of Exodus 20, and in the three Chapter s which follow, we have a series of laws delivered by God to Moses, immediately after the delivery of the Deca...
IF THOU WILT MAKE ME AN ALTAR OF STONE. — Among civilised nations altars were almost always of stone, which superseded earth, as more durable. God does not absolutely prohibit the employment of stone...
וְ אִם ־מִזְבַּ֤ח אֲבָנִים֙ תַּֽעֲשֶׂה ־לִּ֔י...
PART I.--THE LAW OF WORSHIP. Exodus 20:22. It is no vain repetition that this code begins by reasserting the supremacy of the one God. That principle underlies all the law, and must be carried into e...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confess...
THE PEOPLE FEAR; IDOLS AND ALTARS Exodus 20:18 When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him, penitents wept at His feet, children n...
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,...
Defiled; because done in opposition to God's order, who required, on this occasion, the utmost simplicity, to prevent any undue veneration. Iron was not used about the tabernacle or temple, as brass w...
Is not this altar of earth intended to shew, that as the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, and nothing of creature property is to be mixed with it, so salvation is all the Lord's; nothing...
"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 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...
AND IF THOU WILT MAKE ME AN ALTAR OF STONE,.... If they chose instead of an earthen one to make one of stone, as they might in rocky places, where they came, and in such an one where they now were, Mo...
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Ver. 25. _Thou hast polluted._] Not polished it. So in...
Exo. 20:24, 25, 26. "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me - And if thou wilt make an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast pollute...
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...
And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, if the children of Israel should prefer such an altar, THOU SHALT NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE; FOR IT THOU LIFT UP THY TOOL UPON IT, THOU HAST POLLUTED IT, l...
THE PRECEPT CONCERNING THE ALTAR...
B. THE FIRST COMPENDIOUS LAW OF SACRIFICE Exodus 20:22-26 22And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23Ye sh...
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...
BUILD IT OF HEWEN STONE: _ Heb._ build them with hewing...
22-26 Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spake in his hearing all that follows from hence to the end of chap. 23, which is mostly an exposition of the ten commandments. The laws...
AN ALTAR OF STONE in those rocky parts might be as easy for them to make as one of earth. _Hewn stone_ would require both time, and cost, and art. The reasons of this precept are in part the same with...
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 20:25 make H6213 (H8799) altar H4196 stone H68 build H1129 (H8799) stone H1496 use H5130 ...
YAHWEH'S INSTRUCTION CONCERNING FUTURE WORSHIP (EXODUS 20:22). In view of their fears, and the commands that He has given in Exodus 20:3, Yahweh now makes provision for their worship. They are to reco...
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 build it of hewn stone._ THE ALTAR OF “UNHEWN STONE”: SIMPLICITY OF WORSHIP I. Ritualism is not a necessity of worship. There can be worship at the rough “altar of unhewn stones,” as...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 20:22 These verses introduce the first section of laws following the Ten Commandments (Exodus 21:1), and...
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 ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:23. Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither, &c.] We prefer the Massoretic punctuation of this verse, which reveals a delicate appreciation of the meaning, althoug...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, (Exodus 20:1. Exodus 20:22, to Exodus 22:1.
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...
and Deuteronomy 27:5 Deuteronomy 27:6 Joshua 8:31 build it of hewn stone. Heb. build them with hewing...