Exodus 24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 24

Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God privately in the three foregoing chapters, in this chapter, I. Comes down to the people, acquaints them with the laws he had received, and takes their consent to those laws (Exod. 24:3), writes the laws, and reads them to the people, who repeat their consent (Exod. 24:4-7), and then by sacrifice, and the sprinkling of blood, ratifies the covenant between them and God, Exod. 24:5, 6, 8. II. He returns... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 24:1-8

The first two verses record the appointment of a second session upon mount Sinai, for the making of laws, when an end was put to the first. When a communion is begun between God and us, it shall never fail on his side, if it do not first fail on ours. Moses is directed to bring Aaron and his sons, and the seventy elders of Israel, that they might be witnesses of the glory of God, and that communion with him to which Moses was admitted; and that their testimony might confirm the people's faith.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 24:9-11

The people having, besides their submission to the ceremony of the sprinkling of blood, declared their well-pleasedness in their God and his law, again and again, God here gives to their representatives some special tokens of his favour to them (for God meets him that rejoices and works righteousness), and admits them nearer to him than they could have expected. Thus, in the New-Testament church, we find the four living creatures, and the four and twenty elders, honoured with places round the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 24:12-18

The public ceremony of sealing the covenant being over, Moses is called up to receive further instructions, which we have in the following chapters. I. He is called up into the mount, and there he remains six days at some distance. Orders are given him (Exod. 24:12): Come up to the mount, and be there, that is, ?Expect to continue there for some considerable time.? Those that would have communion with God must not only come to ordinances, but they must abide by them. Blessed are those that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 24 In this chapter we have an account that Moses was ordered to come up to the Lord alone, Exodus 24:1 , but that before he did go up, he related to the people all the above laws delivered to him, which they promised obedience to, and so a covenant was made between God and the people by sacrifice, and by the sprinkling of blood, Exodus 24:3 , upon which he and Aaron, and his two sons and seventy elders of Israel, went up part of the mountain, and had a vision of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:1

And he said unto Moses ,.... Who said? no doubt a divine Person, and yet what this Person said is: come up unto the Lord ; meaning either to himself, or one divine Person called to Moses to come up to another: according to the Targum of Jonathan, it was Michael, the prince of wisdom; not a created angel, but the eternal Word, Wisdom, and Son of God; who said this on the seventh day of the month, which was the day after the giving of the law, or ten commands; though Jarchi says this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:2

And Moses alone shall come near the Lord ,.... Into the cloud where he was, and talk with him face to face, as a man talketh with his friend; which was great nearness indeed, and a peculiar favour and high honour was this: but they shall not come nigh ; Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel: neither shall the people go up with him ; not any of them, much less the whole body. It seems, by this account, that Moses had been down from the mount after he had received... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:3

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments ,.... Which according to Jarchi were the seven commands given to the sons of Noah, the laws concerning the sabbath, and honouring parents, the red heifer, and the judgments at Marah; but all these they were acquainted with before, excepting that of the red heifer, and the law, for that was not yet delivered to Moses, nor were these the ten commands, for they had heard them from the Lord themselves; but they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord ,.... Jarchi says, all from the creation, to the giving of the law, and the commands at Marah; but though these were written by him, yet not at this time; but as Aben Ezra more truly observes, what are mentioned in this "parashah", or section, or what is contained in the two preceding chapters, he not only related to them from his memory, but he wrote them in a book, which is after mentioned, that they might be seen and read hereafter; for these were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:5

And he sent young men of the children Israel ,.... To the altar under the hill he had these young men, according to Jarchi, were the firstborn of the children of Israel; and so the Targums Onkelos and Jonathan; and the latter adds,"for unto this hour the worship was among the firstborn, as yet the tabernacle of the covenant was not made, and as yet the priesthood was not given to Aaron.'But though this is a notion that has obtained among learned men, both Jews and Christians, it has been... read more

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