Exodus 32:30-33:23 WEB

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:1-35

THE BREACH MADE AND REPAIRED Moses for forty days has been absent in the mount, and to the people it seemed long. Had they forgotten the awe-inspired sights and sounds they had seen and heard? Had all the sublime and stirring events of the months since they departed from Egypt been obliterated from their memory? How can we explain the folly into which they now fell? If we cannot explain it, let us ask our own hearts if we know anything like it. THE MOLTEN CALF (Exodus 32:1-6 ) What... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 32:1-35

Aaron's Idolatry Exodus 32:0 Moses had been sent for to go up to the top of the mountain and speak to God. The man was sent for: he owed nothing to his own originality or invention. It is a mistake to suppose that Moses invented anything, originated or outlined anything of his own imagination. The Bible is of God, or it is not a word to be believed or received into the heart, or made the monitor of the troubled life. The minister does not make his own sermons: if he does, what wonder that they... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 32:30-35

Providence Delayed Exo 32:30-35 Let us look at the historical picture which has now been almost completed. Moses had been summoned to meet the Lord upon Mount Sinai. There he had tarried forty days and forty nights. On coming down the mountain, it was discovered that Aaron and the people had fashioned and worshipped a golden calf. On descending to the plain Moses broke the two tables of stone, and inflicted humiliation and punishment upon the idolaters. And strange to say yet not strange to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 32:30

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George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:30

You. Many who had not been slain, had followed the bad example, and Aaron, in particular, had brought upon them a most heinous sin, ver. 21. Yet on account of their repentance, they were not subjected to immediate punishment; but they were visited afterwards, ver. 34. Though God was appeased, (ver. 14,) so as not to destroy the whole multitude, Moses thought it a very arduous task to obtain a full reconciliation, notwithstanding the exemplary vengeance he had taken of the ringleaders. Hence he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 32:30-35

30-35 Moses calls it a great sin. The work of ministers is to show people the greatness of their sins. The great evil of sin appears in the price of pardon. Moses pleads with God for mercy; he came not to make excuses, but to make atonement. We are not to suppose that Moses means that he would be willing to perish for ever, for the people's sake. We are to love our neighbour as ourselves, and not more than ourselves. But having that mind which was in Christ, he was willing to lay down his life... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Exodus 32:30-35

Moses Again Intercedes for the People v. 30. And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. He indicates that their crime may still be covered by means of an expiation, and states his willingness to make an effort to obtain this atonement. v. 31. And Moses returned unto the Lord and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Exodus 32:1-35

THIRD DIVISIONThe legislation as modified by the lapse of the people, and the intensified distinction between Jehovah and Israel as expressed in the more hierarchical constitution of the theocracyExodus 32-34FIRST SECTIONThe Erection and worship of the golden calf. god’s judgment and moses’ intercession. his anger. the sentence of destruction on the golden calf, and of punishment on the people. the conditional pardonExodus 32:1-35A.—The golden calfExodus 32:1-61And when the people saw that... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Exodus 32:30-35

Exodus THE GOLDEN CALF Exo_32:1 - - Exo_32:8 ; Exo_32:30 - - Exo_32:35 . It was not yet six weeks since the people had sworn, ‘All that the Lord hath spoken will we do, and be obedient.’ The blood of the covenant, sprinkled on them, was scarcely dry when they flung off allegiance to Jehovah. Such short-lived loyalty to Him can never have been genuine. That mob of slaves was galvanised by Moses into obedience; and since their acceptance of Jehovah was in reality only yielding to the power of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Exodus 32:25-35

Moses Punishes Idolaters and Prays for the People Exodus 32:25-35 The heart of Moses was full of that wonderful new word, atonement . For many days Jehovah had been speaking to him about it. But he seemed to feel that on this occasion, the blood of goats and bulls could not avail to put away the black transgression of His people. Then there arose within him the noble resolve to which he gave expression, when he returned by the well-worn path to the summit of Sinai. His voice was very broken... read more