_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED TO COME DOWN OUT OF THE MOUNT, THE PEOPLE GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO AARON, AND SAID UNTO HIM, UP, MAKE US GODS, WHICH SHALL GO BEFORE US; FOR AS FOR THIS MOSES, THE MAN THAT BROUGHT US UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, WE WOT NOT WHAT IS BECOME OF HIM._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AARON SAID UNTO THEM, BREAK OFF THE GOLDEN EARRINGS, WHICH ARE IN THE EARS OF YOUR WIVES, OF YOUR SONS, AND OF YOUR DAUGHTERS, AND BRING THEM UNTO ME._ Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, х_ NIZMEEY_ (H5141)] - nose rings (Genesis 24:47; Proverbs 11:22; Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE PEOPLE BRAKE OFF THE GOLDEN EARRINGS WHICH WERE IN THEIR EARS, AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO AARON._ All the people brake off the golden earrings. The Egyptian rings, as seen on the monuments, were round massy plates of metal; and as it was rings of this sort the Israelites wore, being among t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE RECEIVED THEM AT THEIR HAND, AND FASHIONED IT WITH A GRAVING TOOL, AFTER HE HAD MADE IT A MOLTEN CALF: AND THEY SAID, THESE BE THY GODS, O ISRAEL, WHICH BROUGHT THEE UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ he ... fashioned it with a graving tool, х_ WAYAATSAR_ (H3335) _ 'OTOW_ (H853) _ BACHERET_ (H27... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN AARON SAW IT, HE BUILT AN ALTAR BEFORE IT; AND AARON MADE PROCLAMATION, AND SAID, TO MORROW IS A FEAST TO THE LORD._ Aaron ... built an altar before it - `like that which still exists before the nostrils of the sphinx' (Stanley, 'Jewish Church,' p. 150). AARON MADE PROCLAMATION ... TOMOR... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ROSE UP EARLY ON THE MORROW, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS, AND BROUGHT PEACE OFFERINGS; AND THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND TO DRINK, AND ROSE UP TO PLAY._ They rose up early on the morrow. Rising early seems to have been a practice specially observed on days when solemn sacrifices were off... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GO, GET THEE DOWN; FOR THY PEOPLE, WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES:_ Go, get thee down. Intelligence of the idolatrous scene enacted at the foot of the mount was communicated to Moses in language borrowed from human passions a... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY HAVE TURNED ASIDE QUICKLY OUT OF THE WAY WHICH I COMMANDED THEM: THEY HAVE MADE THEM A MOLTEN CALF, AND HAVE WORSHIPPED IT, AND HAVE SACRIFICED THEREUNTO, AND SAID, THESE BE THY GODS, O ISRAEL, WHICH HAVE BROUGHT THEE UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ They have turned aside quickly, х_ CAARUW_ (H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE, AND, BEHOLD, IT IS A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY WAX HOT AGAINST THEM, AND THAT I MAY CONSUME THEM: AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION._ Now therefore let me alone. Such an expression could not have occurred in the patriarchal age-the time of Theophanies. But there was now a great progress made i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES BESOUGHT THE LORD HIS GOD, AND SAID, LORD, WHY DOTH THY WRATH WAX HOT AGAINST THY PEOPLE, WHICH THOU HAST BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH GREAT POWER, AND WITH A MIGHTY HAND?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE SHOULD THE EGYPTIANS SPEAK, AND SAY, FOR MISCHIEF DID HE BRING THEM OUT, TO SLAY THEM IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND TO CONSUME THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH? TURN FROM THY FIERCE WRATH, AND REPENT OF THIS EVIL AGAINST THY PEOPLE._ For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountai... [ Continue Reading ]
_REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL, THY SERVANTS, TO WHOM THOU SWAREST BY THINE OWN SELF, AND SAIDST UNTO THEM, I WILL MULTIPLY YOUR SEED AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND ALL THIS LAND THAT I HAVE SPOKEN OF WILL I GIVE UNTO YOUR SEED, AND THEY SHALL INHERIT IT FOR EVER._ No JFB commentary on this vers... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD REPENTED OF THE EVIL WHICH HE THOUGHT TO DO UNTO HIS PEOPLE._ The Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. God generally works by the instrumentality of means; and in this case the means of averting the wrath of God was the urgent intercessions of Moses, who,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES TURNED, AND WENT DOWN FROM THE MOUNT, AND THE TWO TABLES OF THE TESTIMONY WERE IN HIS HAND: THE TABLES WERE WRITTEN ON BOTH THEIR SIDES; ON THE ONE SIDE AND ON THE OTHER WERE THEY WRITTEN._ Moses turned, and went down from the mount. The plain Er-Rabeh is not visible from the top of Jebe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE TABLES WERE THE WORK OF GOD, AND THE WRITING WAS THE WRITING OF GOD, GRAVEN UPON THE TABLES._ The tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God. It has been alleged that this phraseology is according to the Hebrew idiom, in which the mountains of God mean high mountai... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN JOSHUA HEARD THE NOISE OF THE PEOPLE AS THEY SHOUTED, HE SAID UNTO MOSES, THERE IS A NOISE OF WAR IN THE CAMP._ Joshua. He had remained under the trees on the higher level-the plain whence the last part of the ascent is made, now by stairs hewn in the rocks-to the summit of the mountain.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, IT IS NOT THE VOICE OF THEM THAT SHOUT FOR MASTERY, NEITHER IS IT THE VOICE OF THEM THAT CRY FOR BEING OVERCOME: BUT THE NOISE OF THEM THAT SING DO I HEAR._ It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, х_ GªBUWRAAH_ (H1369)] - or victory (cf. Exodus 17:11). 'It is not the shout... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS HE CAME NIGH UNTO THE CAMP, THAT HE SAW THE CALF, AND THE DANCING: AND MOSES' ANGER WAXED HOT, AND HE CAST THE TABLES OUT OF HIS HANDS, AND BRAKE THEM BENEATH THE MOUNT._ As soon as he came nigh unto the camp ... he saw the calf, and the dancing. An abrupt turn from... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN MOSES SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WERE NAKED; (FOR AARON HAD MADE THEM NAKED UNTO THEIR SHAME_ _ AMONG THEIR ENEMIES:)_ Naked - either unarmed and defenseless, or ashamed from a sense of guilt; stripped of their greatest ornament, faithfulness to God (2 Chronicles 28:19; Isaiah 47:3; Jeremiah 49:... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN MOSES STOOD IN THE GATE OF THE CAMP, AND SAID, WHO IS ON THE LORD'S SIDE? LET HIM COME UNTO ME. AND ALL THE SONS OF LEVI GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO HIM._ Moses stood in the gate. The camp is supposed to have been protected by a rampart after the attack of the Amalekites. WHO IS ON TH... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR MOSES HAD SAID, CONSECRATE YOURSELVES TO DAY TO THE LORD, EVEN EVERY MAN UPON HIS SON, AND UPON HIS BROTHER; THAT HE MAY BESTOW UPON YOU A BLESSING THIS DAY._ Consecrate - or ye have consecrated yourselves today. The Levites, notwithstanding the defection of Aaron distinguished themselves by t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Said unto the people, Ye have sinned. Moses laboured to show the people the heinous nature of their sin, and bri... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE NOW GO, LEAD THE PEOPLE UNTO THE PLACE OF WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEE: BEHOLD, MINE ANGEL SHALL GO BEFORE THEE: NEVERTHELESS IN THE DAY WHEN I VISIT I WILL VISIT THEIR SIN UPON THEM._ Lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee (see the note at Exodus 23:20 ): behol... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD PLAGUED THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY MADE THE CALF, WHICH AARON MADE._ THE LORD PLAGUED THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY MADE THE CALF. No immediate judgments were inflicted; but this early lapse into idolatry was always mentioned as an aggravation of their subsequent apostasies.... [ Continue Reading ]