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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:27

And he said unto them, thus saith the Lord God of Israel ,.... The following orders are given by Moses, not of himself the chief magistrate, and as the effect of heat and passion, but there were from the Lord, who was Israel's God and King; he had them expressly from him, or by an impulse on his spirit, or in such a way and manner that he knew it was of God, and this was his will: put every man his sword by his side ; girt there, ready to be drawn upon order: and go in and out from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:28

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses ,.... They girded their swords by their sides, went through the camp, and slew their brethren, companions and neighbours, who were keeping holy day in honour of the idol: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men ; the Vulgate Latin version reads 23,000, very wrongly; now these being chiefly, if not altogether, of the tribe of Levi, the brethren, companions, and neighbours of the Levites, that were the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:29

For Moses had said ,.... To the Levites, when he first gave them their orders: consecrate yourselves today to the Lord ; devote yourselves to his service, by obeying his orders, slaying those, or the heads of them, who have cast so much contempt upon him as to worship the golden calf in his room; and which would be as acceptable to him as the offerings were, by which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the Lord; and as these Levites were consecrated to his service this day, on this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:30

And it came to pass on the morrow ,.... The eighteenth day of Tammuz it was, the same writers say, that Moses implored the mercy of God for Israel. Jarchi on Exodus 32:11 says it was on the seventeenth day the tables were broke, on the eighteenth the calf was burnt, and on the nineteenth that Moses went up to intercede for them: that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a great sin ; the sin of idolatry, see Exodus 32:21 from whence it appears, that all that were guilty of it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:31

And Moses returned unto the Lord ,.... On the mount where he was in the cloud: and said, oh, this people have sinned a great sin ; which to following words explain; he confesses the same to God he had charged the people with in Exodus 32:30 , and have made them gods of gold ; the golden calf, which they themselves called "Elohim", gods. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:32

Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin ,.... Of thy free grace, good will, and pleasure; it will redound to thy glory, men will praise thy name on account of it; these people will have great reason to be thankful, and will lie under great obligations to thee, to fear, serve, and glorify thee; and in particular it will be regarded by me as the highest favour that can be asked or granted: and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of the book which thou hast written ; not the book of the law,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:20

He took the calf - and burnt - and ground it to powder, etc. - How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder and strewed on the water! "But," says an objector, "how could gold, the most ductile of all metals, and the most ponderous, be stamped into dust and strewed on water?" In Deuteronomy 9:21 , this matter is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:21

What did this people unto thee - It seems if Aaron had been firm, this evil might have been prevented. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:22

Thou knowest the people - He excuses himself by the wicked and seditious spirit of the people, intimating that he was obliged to accede to their desires. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:24

I cast it into the fire and there came out this calf - What a silly and ridiculous subterfuge! He seems to insinuate that he only threw the metal into the fire, and that the calf came unexpectedly out by mere accident. The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel makes a similar excuse for him: "And I said unto them, Whosoever hath gold, let him break it off and give it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and Satan entered into it, and it came out in the form of this calf!" Just like the popish legend... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:24

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