Exodus 32:10-14 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-10

The anger of God. God may well be angry when his people apostatise; and having recently professed entire submission to his will ( Exodus 19:8 ; Exodus 24:3 ), rebel suddenly, and cast his words behind their backs. God's anger against Israel was at this time intensified— I. BY THEIR EXTREME INGRATITUDE . He had just delivered them by a series of stupendous miracles from a cruel bondage. He had brought them out of Egypt—he had divided the Red Sea before them, and led them... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-11

The first intercessions. If Israel has been forgetting God, God has not been forgetting Israel. His eye has been on all their doings. There has not been a thought in their heart, or a word on their tongue, but, lo! it has altogether been well known to him ( Psalms 139:4 ). It is God's way, however, to permit matters to reach a crisis before he interposes. For a time he keeps silence. During the inception and early stages of the movement in Israel, he makes no discovery of it to Moses. He... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-14

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-14

The wrath of Jehovah and the intercession of Moses. I. JEHOVAH DESCRIBES TO MOSES THE APOSTASY OF ISRAEL . Jehovah is omniscient; even while spreading before Moses, with all elaboration, the patterns in the mount, his all-observant eye is equally on the doings of the people below. And now, just when Moses is expecting to be dismissed with his instructions for the people, he is fated to learn that they have proved themselves utterly unworthy of Jehovah's great designs. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:10

Now, therefore, let me alone. This was not a command, but rather a suggestion; or, at any rate, it was a command not intended to compel obedience—like that of the angel to Jacob—"Let me go, for the day breaketh" ( Genesis 32:26 ). Moses was not intended to take the command as absolute. He did not do so—he "wrestled with God," like Jacob, and prevailed. That my wrath may wax hot . Literally, "and my wrath will wax hot." I will make of thee a great nation . (Compare Numbers 14:12 .)... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:11-13

Moses has three pleas wherewith he "wrestles with God:"— 1 . Israel is God's people, for whom he has done so much that surely he will not now destroy them, and so undo his own work. 2 . Egypt will be triumphant if Israel is swept away, and will misapprehend the Divine action. 3 . The promises made to Abraham ( Genesis 15:5 ; Genesis 17:2-6 ; etc.), IsaActs ( Genesis 26:4 ), and Jacob ( Genesis 28:14 ; Genesis 35:11 ), which had received a partial fulfilment, would seem to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:11-15

The intercession of Moses. This intercession should be studied and laid to heart by all Christians, especially by Christian ministers, whose duty it is to "watch for the souls" of others, as "they that must give account." It was— I. EARNEST AND IMPASSIONED . No feeble voice, no lukewarm, timid utterance, was heard in the words whereby the leader sought to save his people. Prayer, expostulation, almost reproach, sound in them. God is besought, urged, importuned, to grant the boon... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:14

The Lord repented of the evil . Changes of purpose are, of course, attributed to God by an "economy," or accommodation of the truth to human modes of speech and conception. "God is not a man that he should repent." He "knows the end from the beginning." When he threatened to destroy Israel, he knew that he would spare; but, as he communicated to Moses, first, his anger, and then, at a later period, his intention to spare, he is said to have "repented." The expression is an anthropomorphic... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:14

Some powers restrain, some compel. Here we see a restraining power, and one which can even restrain God. Notice— I. EVIL THREATENED . 1 . Justly merited . Remember all that had gone before: deliverance after a series of awe-inspiring judgments on the oppressors; warnings after previous murmurings; now, with a fuller revelation of God's majesty, this act of impatient apostasy: all compelled to the conclusion that the people were utterly stiff-necked ( Exodus 32:9 ). 2 . ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 32:7-35

The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be made manifest whether he loved his own glory better than he loved the brethren who were under his charge; whether he would prefer that he should himself become the founder of a “great nation,” or that the Lord’s promise should be fulfilled in the whole people of Israel. This may have been especially needful for Moses, in consequence of his natural disposition. See Numbers 12:3; and... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:7-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:11-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:11-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 32:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 32:7-35

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