Exodus 24:13-16

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 24:13

And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua ,.... In order to go up higher on the mount. Joshua, and he only, was to go up higher with him, though not to the top of the mount, at least not into the cloud upon it, as Moses did. Joshua was his minister or servant, and waited upon him wherever he went, and was to be his successor; and therefore for his encouragement, and to qualify him the better for it, he was indulged with a sight and knowledge of things others were not; for by his not knowing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:14

And he said unto the elders ,.... The seventy elders which were selected out of the several tribes of Israel, and now about to return to the camp: tarry ye here for us ; meaning himself and Joshua, who was going with him: until we come again unto you ; perhaps Moses might not know how long his stay would be at the top of the mount, but supposed it would be some time by the provision he makes for hearing and adjusting cases in his absence: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:15

And Moses went up into the mount ,.... To the top of it, and as it seems alone, leaving Joshua behind in a lower part of the mountain: and a cloud covered the mount ; in which cloud Jehovah was. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:16

And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai ,.... The divine Shechinah or Majesty, some visible token of it, an exceeding great brightness and splendour: and the cloud covered it six days ; either the glory of the Lord, so that it could not be seen it had been; or the mount, as Jarchi; but that is observed before, unless repeated for the sake of the time it covered it, six days; or him, Moses, as some in Jarchi, who for six days together was covered with a thick cloud, so that he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:13

Moses rose up - In Exodus 24:16 ; it is said that the glory of the Lord abode on the mount, and the cloud covered it. The glory was probably above the cloud, and it was to the cloud that Moses and his servant Joshua ascended at this time, leaving Aaron and the elders below. After they had been in this region, viz., where the cloud encompassed the mountain, for six days, God appears to have called Moses up higher: compare verses Exodus 24:16 ; and Exodus 24:18 . Moses then ascended to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:14

Tarry ye here for us - Probably Moses did not know that he was to continue so long on the mount, nor is it likely that the elders tarried the whole forty days where they were: they doubtless, after waiting some considerable time, returned to the camp; and their return is supposed to have been the grand cause why the Israelites made the golden calf, as they probably reported that Moses was lost. Aaron and Hur are with you - Not knowing how long he might be detained on the mount, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:16

And the seventh day he called - It is very likely that Moses went up into the mount on the first day of the week; and having with Joshua remained in the region of the cloud during six days, on the seventh, which was the Sabbath, God spake to him, and delivered successively to him, during forty days and forty nights, the different statutes and ordinances which are afterwards mentioned. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:14

Verse 14 14.Tarry ye here for us, until we come again. I do not take the words so precisely as to suppose that he commanded them to stand still in the same place; but since he was just about to be separated from intercourse with men, I suppose, that our earthly dwelling-place is indicated by the adverb, (322) since it immediately follows, that if anything should occur, Aaron and Hur were to be his substitutes for ruling the people and settling quarrels. For, since care and anxiety might beset... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 24:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 24:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 24:12-18

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