_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, DEPART, AND GO UP HENCE, THOU AND THE PEOPLE WHICH THOU HAST BROUGHT UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, UNTO THE LAND WHICH I SWARE UNTO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB, SAYING, UNTO THY SEED WILL I GIVE IT:_ The Lord said - rather 'had' said unto Moses. The conference deta... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE; AND I WILL DRIVE OUT THE CANAANITE, THE AMORITE, AND THE HITTITE, AND THE PERIZZITE, THE HIVITE, AND THE JEBUSITE:_ I will send an Angel before thee. Yahweh here announces that He would employ some providential agency in accomplishing the promise made to their... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNTO A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY: FOR I WILL NOT GO UP IN THE MIDST OF THEE; FOR THOU ART A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE: LEST I CONSUME THEE IN THE WAY._ I will not go up in the midst of thee ... lest I consume thee in the way. Since their deep-rooted prepossessions for idolatry would certainly mani... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THESE EVIL TIDINGS, THEY MOURNED: AND NO MAN DID PUT ON HIM HIS ORNAMENTS._ When the people heard these evil tidings - from Moses on his descent from the mount. God, indeed, had promised (Exodus 33:14) that He would not inflict upon them the punishment either of national... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LORD HAD SAID UNTO MOSES, SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, YE ARE A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE: I WILL COME UP INTO THE MIDST OF THEE IN A MOMENT, AND CONSUME THEE: THEREFORE NOW PUT OFF THY ORNAMENTS FROM THEE, THAT I MAY KNOW WHAT TO DO UNTO THEE._ Put off thy ornaments. In seasons of mourning i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL STRIPPED THEMSELVES OF THEIR ORNAMENTS BY THE MOUNT HOREB._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES TOOK THE TABERNACLE, AND PITCHED IT WITHOUT THE CAMP, AFAR OFF FROM THE CAMP, AND CALLED IT THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION. AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT EVERY ONE WHICH SOUGHT THE LORD WENT OUT UNTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, WHICH WAS WITHOUT THE CAMP._ Moses took the tabernac... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN MOSES WENT OUT UNTO THE TABERNACLE, THAT ALL THE PEOPLE ROSE UP, AND STOOD EVERY MAN AT HIS TENT DOOR, AND LOOKED AFTER MOSES, UNTIL HE WAS GONE INTO THE TABERNACLE._ All the people rose up, and stood. Its removal produced deep and universal consternation; and it is easy... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS MOSES ENTERED INTO THE TABERNACLE, THE CLOUDY PILLAR DESCENDED, AND STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE, AND THE LORD TALKED WITH MOSES._ The cloudy pillar descended. How would the downcast hearts of the people revive-how would the tide of joy swell in every bosom, when the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD, SEE, THOU SAYEST UNTO ME, BRING UP THIS PEOPLE: AND THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME. YET THOU HAST SAID, I KNOW THEE BY NAME, AND THOU HAST ALSO FOUND GRACE IN MY SIGHT._ Thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Moses at this crisis... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, IF I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, SHEW ME NOW THY WAY, THAT I MAY KNOW THEE, THAT I MAY FIND GRACE IN THY SIGHT: AND CONSIDER THAT THIS NATION IS THY PEOPLE._ Show me now thy way - i:e., the mode of thy intended procedure toward thy people; the way in which thou wilt... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE, AND I WILL GIVE THEE REST._ My presence shall go with thee, х_ PAANAY_ (H6440), my face], i:e., personal presence, as the word signifies (Deuteronomy 4:37; 2 Samuel 17:11). Yahweh being now reconciled with the people, through the intercessions of Moses... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, IF THY PRESENCE GO NOT WITH ME, CARRY US NOT UP HENCE._ If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence - i:e., I should infinitely rather spend a wandering life in the wilderness, in the enjoyment of thy presence and favour, than be settled in Canaan without it, God's... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, I BESEECH THEE, SHEW ME THY GLORY._ I beseech thee, show me thy glory. It is not easy to perceive the precise object of Moses in making this request, He had enjoyed repeated opportunities of beholding extraordinary displays of the divine glory-on the summit of Sinai (Exodus 19:1; Exod... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, I WILL MAKE ALL MY GOODNESS PASS BEFORE THEE, AND I WILL PROCLAIM THE NAME OF THE LORD BEFORE THEE; AND WILL BE GRACIOUS TO WHOM I WILL BE GRACIOUS, AND WILL SHEW MERCY ON WHOM I WILL SHEW MERCY._ I WILL MAKE ALL MY GOODNESS PASS BEFORE THEE, х_ TUWB_ (H2898) signifies often, when appl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, THOU CANST NOT SEE MY FACE: FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME, AND LIVE._ Thou canst not see my face - i:e., the real unveiled effulgence of the divine glory. FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME, AND LIVE - a traditional belief obtained through all pagan antiquity, that the appearance of God,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID, BEHOLD, THERE IS A PLACE BY ME, AND THOU SHALT STAND UPON A ROCK:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHILE MY GLORY PASSETH BY, THAT I WILL PUT THEE IN A CLIFT OF THE ROCK, AND WILL COVER THEE WITH MY HAND WHILE I PASS BY:_ I will put thee in a clift of the rock - namely, on Sinai, whither Moses was again called up (Exodus 34:2). In the chapel on Jebel M-sa dedicated to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL TAKE AWAY MINE HAND, AND THOU SHALT SEE MY BACK PARTS: BUT MY FACE SHALL NOT BE SEEN._ Thou shalt see my back parts. Since a man whose back only is seen, and not his face, can be but imperfectly known, so God can be but indistinctly and partially discerned in the present state from His... [ Continue Reading ]