Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt make thee no (e) molten gods.
(e) As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: in this is condemned all types idols, no matter what they are made of.
Thou shalt make thee no (e) molten gods.
(e) As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: in this is condemned all types idols, no matter what they are made of.
The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; s...
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...
MOLTEN GODS THOU SHALT NOT MAKE THEE] Cf. Leviticus 19:4 (H) -And _molten gods ye shall not make you_"; also, for the general thought, Exodus 20:23. _Vv._18 26 agree, for the most part verbally, with...
The conditions of the covenant, i.e. the laws upon the acceptance of which its establishment depends. The laws themselves seem to have received parenetic additions from the compiler....
The (re-)establishment of the covenant, with the laws upon which it is based. The passage belongs in the main to E; but it has probably been enlarged in parts with hortatory additions by the compiler....
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...
_THOU SHALT MAKE THEE NO MOLTEN GODS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
THOU SHALT MAKE THEE NO MOLTEN GODS. — It is just possible that the Israelites when they worshipped the golden calf may have conceived that they were not breaking the second commandment, which forbade...
אֱלֹהֵ֥י מַסֵּכָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֶׂה ־לָּֽךְ׃...
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...
The same precepts are of everlasting obligation, in all ages of the Church, 2 Corinthians 6:14....
"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...
Exodus 34:17._Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. _When he calls graven things, statues, and pictures, by the name of gods, he shews the object and sum of the Second Commandment, viz., that God is in...
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...
THOU SHALT MAKE THEE NO MOLTEN GODS. Made of a melted liquid, whether gold, or silver, or brass, poured into a mould; and though graven images are not mentioned, they are included, a part being put fo...
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Ver. 17. _No molten gods._] As the golden calf was. Goodly gods that are molten! _Olim truncus eram._ _a_ a Horat....
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...
THE GRACIOUS PROMISE...
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods, idols cast out of any metal. While the participation in sacrificial meals of the heathen and intermarriages with heathen women only led to idolatry, the making of...
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...
10-17 The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and the...
Nor graven, nor any other, as it plainly appears both from the nature of the things, and from many parallel scriptures; but he mentions molten, because their late idol was of that kind....
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 34:17 make H6213 (H8799) molded H4541 gods H430 for yourselves Exodus 32:8;...
A COVENANT CODICIL CONTAINING TEN RITUAL REQUIREMENTS WHICH WILL CONFIRM THEIR FAITHFULNESS TO THEIR OVERLORD AS SELECTED FROM CHAPTER S 20-23 (EXODUS 34:17). In counteracting the temptation to idolat...
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...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 34:17 CAST METAL is the same Hebrew word used of the “golden” calf (see esv footnote at Exodus 32:4)....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 34:10_ THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT The engagements which man had made with God being broken, the covenant had to be commenced _de novo_. All the ground must...
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...
Exodus 32:8 Leviticus 19:4 Isaiah 46:6 Isaiah 46:7 Jeremiah 10:14...