Exode 33:17-34:9 BDS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 33:17

Exodus 33:17. I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken See the power of prayer! See the riches of God’s goodness! See, in type, the prevalency of Christ’s intercession, which he ever lives to make for all those that come to God by him! and the ground of that prevalency is purely in his own merit; it is because thou hast found grace in my sight And now God is perfectly reconciled to them, and his presence in the pillar of cloud returns to them. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 33:1-23

Assurance of God’s presence (33:1-23)Because of his mercy God allowed the people to continue their journey to the land he had promised their ancestors, but because of their sin he could not go with them lest he destroy them. However, he promised to send a heavenly representative to go before them into Canaan. He also required the people to give a clear outward sign of mourning for their past sin and the loss of fellowship with God that resulted from it (33:1-6).God’s refusal to go with Israel... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 33:12-17

GOD REVOKES THE THREAT OF WITHDRAWAL"And Moses said unto Jehovah, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found favor in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 33:17

Exodus 33:17. The Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also— Though we cannot suppose that prayer can make the Deity more compassionate, or produce a change in his sentiments; yet, as he has been pleased to suspend the grant of his favours on the condition of prayer; we have the strongest reason and the best encouragement, to continue unwearied in the use of it; and to intercede earnestly for those blessings for ourselves and others, which the unbounded goodness of God is always ready to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 33:17-23

God promised this too (Exodus 33:17).Third, Moses requested a greater perception of God’s essential being than he had experienced thus far. This would also enable him to serve God more effectively in view of the altered relationship (Exodus 33:18). God explained that no one can view Him directly and live."As our bodily eye is dazzled, and its power of vision destroyed, by looking directly at the brightness of the sun, so would our whole nature be destroyed by an unveiled sight of the brilliancy... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 33:1-23

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 on Exodus 3:1.7. Moses took the tabernacle] RV ’Moses used to take the tent,.. and he called it, The tent of meeting’: see on Exodus 25:22. The tent here is most probably not the Tabernacle whose construction is prescribed in Exodus 25-31. The words describe the practice of Moses before its... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 33:12-17

MOSES OBTAINS A RENEWAL OF GOD’S PROMISE TO GO UP WITH THE PEOPLE.(12-17) The self-humiliation of the people (Exodus 33:4-6) had appeased God’s anger. He was now ready to be entreated. Moses therefore renews his supplications on their behalf, and especially prays for a revocation of the threatened withdrawal of the Divine Presence, and substitution for it of a mere angel. Taking advantage of his privilege to speak to God as friend with friend (Exodus 33:11), he ventures to expostulate, uses... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 33:17

(17) I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken.—At length the promise is unambiguously given. Moses is rewarded for his importunity. God’s people have found grace in His sight. He will “go up” with them, and so “separate them,” or distinguish them, from “all the people that are on the face of the earth.” Now at last Moses is satisfied. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 33:1-23

The Presence Shall Enlighten the Way (for the New Year) Exodus 33:13-15 We have here: I. An unenlightened prayer for light. A rash prayer, impatient, unwise, and of the kind which God never answers according to our pleasure. Show me now Thy way. He wanted to have the sealed book opened, unrolled and set before him that book in which God has written things to come. The Lord is too merciful to let us look ahead. It is in mercy that He overthrows our predictions and mocks our guesses. It is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 33:1-23

CHAPTER XXXIII.PREVAILING INTERCESSION.Exodus 33:1-23At 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 that the original promise of a great Angel in whom was the Divine Presence was full of encouragement and privilege (Exodus 23:20). No unbiassed reader can suppose that it is the sending of this same Angel of the Presence which now expresses the absence of God, or that He Who then would not pardon their... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 33:17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 33:1-23

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 33:12-17

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 33:17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 33:17-23

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 33:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 33:12-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 33:17

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 33:1-23

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 33:1-23

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