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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 34:10-17

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 they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Proverbs 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Exodus 34:10-17

The Gracious Promise v. 10. And He said, Behold, I make a covenant, in the place of or in addition to that which had been broken by Israel's idolatry: Before all the people, in their presence, in their sight, I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation, namely, in bringing His people safely into the Land of Promise. And all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee, a thing which... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Exodus 34:1-35

THIRD SECTIONThe 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-born, the Sabbath, and the Feasts. Return of Moses with the Tables. Moses’ Shining Face and his VeilExodus 34:1-35.A.—The new stone tables for the divine writingExodus 34:1-41And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these [the] tables the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Exodus 34:1-17

the Covenant of the Law Renewed Exodus 34:1-17 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) Solitude : “No man shall come up with thee.” (3) The open heart : “That God may write there what He will.” God is always passing by and covering us with the shadow of His hand, and proclaiming His loving kindness and tender mercy. He keeps mercy for thousands, and limits the entail of sin to... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Exodus 34:1-35

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 methods with men. In these we have the merging of the two essential truths that God is love and God is light. He is full of compassion and yet absolutely holy, He forgives and yet cannot clear the guilty. It was strange and paradoxical, yet an infinite music, fully interpreted when Moses was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 34:11

The Command to Observe That Covenant Accompanied by a Promise to Drive Out the Canaanites (34:11). Exodus 34:11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold I will drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jebusite.” Israel are to take care that they observe all that Yahweh has commanded them. This renewal of His promise to drive out the Canaanites is an assurance that their previous failure has been forgiven. But they must... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 34:12-16

A Warning Against Making Any Covenant With the Canaanites And The Need To Destroy Their Idols Because of the Awful Consequences of Idolatry and Because Yahweh is Named ‘Jealous’ and Is A Jealous God (Exodus 34:12-16 ). Exodus 34:12-14 “Take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you. But you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you will cut down their Asherah images, because... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 34:1-35

Exodus 34:1-Hosea : J. The Covenant Words.— After removing Exodus 34:5-1 Samuel : , 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 is the sequel of J’ s account of the descent upon Sinai in Exodus 19, and the clauses ( Exodus 34:1; Exodus 34:3) referring to “ the first (tables)” are glosses of the editor who displaced this section ( cf. p. 183). And it may be that originally, as in Deuteronomy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 34:13

Which at first were used by good men for their devotion, as Genesis 21:33; but afterwards being horribly abused to superstition and idolatry, were by God, s command to be destroyed. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 34:10-26

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Exodus 34:10-26THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANTThe engagements which man had made with God being broken, the covenant had to be commenced de novo. All the ground must be again covered. The subject naturally divides itself into promises, prohibitions, injunctions. For the other circumstances, see Exodus 23:0; Exodus 24:0.I. Promises. “Before all the people I will do marvels,” &c.1. God’s marvels are indefinite, to leave a margin for Him “to do exceeding... read more

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