Exodus 24:9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:1-18

The covenant sealed (24:1-18)When Moses recounted the covenant demands to them, the people once more declared their willingness to obey (cf. 19:8). In ancient times covenants were usually sealed by blood (see notes on Genesis 15:7-21), and at Sinai too God and his people were joined in a blood ritual. Half of the blood was thrown against the altar (representing God) and half was sprinkled on the people. This blood ritual, though having its usual significance in covenant ceremonies, may have had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 24:9

went up . Moses' fourth ascent. See note on Exodus 19:3 .Exodus 19:10; Exodus 19:10 they saw. Hebrew. hazah, to see with the mental eye, or in vision (Isaiah 1:1 ; Isaiah 2:1 ; Isaiah 13:1 .Ezekiel 13:7 . Amos 1:1 .Micah 1:1 .Habakkuk 1:1 .Numbers 24:4 , Numbers 24:16 ). Hence, to discern, observe, contemplate, understand. Job 34:32 .Psalms 46:8 . Proverbs 22:29 ; Proverbs 24:32 ; Proverbs 29:20 . Psalms 62:2 . God. Hebrew. Elohim . App-4 . under . Was this seen from beneath? read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 24:9-10

"Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness."Note the marvelous unity and clearness of this passage. This is impossible of consideration as being derived from some "other source," because identically the same persons are again mentioned, and the word "then" indicates that immediately after the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 24:9-10

Exodus 24:9-10. Then went up Moses and Aaron, &c.— Moses, having ratified the covenant with the people, now, agreeably to the command in Exodus 24:1, went up, with Aaron, and the elders, representative of the children of Israel, as mediator between GOD and the people, to announce their assent and ratification of the covenant: and accordingly GOD discovered to them some more immediate manifestation of his glory than usual; (Exodus 24:10.) they saw the GOD of Israel; i.e. as the Chaldee has... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 24:9

9. Then went up Moses, and Aaron—in obedience to a command given (Exodus 24:1; Exodus 24:2; also Exodus 24:2- :), previous to the religious engagement of the people, now described. Nadab, and Abihu—the two oldest sons of Aaron [Exodus 6:23]. seventy of the elders—a select number; what was the principle of selection is not said; but they were the chief representatives, the most conspicuous for official rank and station, as well as for their probity and weight of character in their respective... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 24:1-11

5. The ratification of the Covenant 24:1-11"The great event in chapter 24 is the climax of the Book of Exodus." [Note: Ramm, p. 139.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 24:9-11

The ratification ceremony concluded with a meal (Exodus 24:9-11), not a picnic lunch but a sacrificial meal (Exodus 24:5)."’They ate and drank’ describes a covenant meal celebrating the sealing of the covenant described in Exodus 24:3-8." [Note: Ibid., p. 450.] We must understand the statement that the leaders of Israel saw God (Exodus 24:10) in the light of other passages (Exodus 33:20-23; Isaiah 6:1; John 1:18). Perhaps they only saw His feet or, more exactly, a representation of part of God... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:1-18

The Ratification of the Covenant1. And he said] The first two vv. of this chapter are a continuation of the narrative from Exodus 20:21, which was interrupted by the insertion of the Book of the Covenant, originally a separate document. chapter Exodus 23:33 is continued in Exodus 24:3. Nadab, and Abihu] the two oldest sons of Aaron: see Exodus 6:23. Seventy of the elders] a selection from the heads of the tribes and families: see on Exodus 3:16. 3. And Moses came and told the people] after he... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 24:9

(9) Then went up.—According to the ordinary ideas of the time, the ratification of the covenant was now complete, and nothing more was needed. It pleased God, however, to terminate the whole transaction by a closing scene of extraordinary grandeur, beauty, and spiritual significance. A sacrifice implied a sacrificial meal (Exodus 18:12). Moses understood that God, by summoning Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders into the mount (Exodus 24:1), had intended the sacrificial meal to be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 24:1-18

Exodus 24:2 All deep feelings of a chronic class agree in this, that they seek for solitude, and are fed by solitude. Deep grief, deep love, how naturally do these ally themselves with religious feeling! and all three, love, grief, religion, are haunters of solitary places. De Quincey. Exodus 24:3 Under baleful Atheisms, Mammonisms, Joe-Manton Dilettantisms, with their appropriate Cants and Idolisms, and whatsoever scandalous rubbish obscures and all but extinguishes the soul of man religion... read more

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