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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Exodus 32:3

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. Swept along by a wave of mob activity, the people showed a fanatical readiness to part with the possessions which they prized most highly. It is the same tendency which may be observed in the case of the many cults and heresies of our days, which spread with such alarming rapidity and command such great resources.

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See also Exodus 32:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 32:3. _AND ALL THE PEOPLE BRAKE OFF THE GOLDEN EAR-RINGS_] The human being is naturally _fond of dress_, though this has been improperly attributed to the female sex alone, and those are...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    In all probability these three chapters originally formed a distinct composition. The main incidents recorded in them follow in the order of time, and are therefore in their proper place as regards hi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. ISRAEL ‘S SIN AND REBELLION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The people in rebellion (Exodus 32:1)_ 2. Jehovah threatens his wrath (Exodus 32:7) 3. Moses beseeches Jehovah (Exodus 32:11) 4. Moses descends and

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 32:1 E, EXODUS 32:7 Rje, EXODUS 32:15 E, EXODUS 32:25 J,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 32 And when the people saw that Mo-ses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aar-on, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, whi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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, w...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE IDOLATRY OF THE PEOPLE 1-6. The historical narrative is here resumed from Exodus 24:18. Becoming impatient at the prolonged absence of Moses on the mount (forty days, Exodus 24:18), and despairing...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 32 THE YOUNG *BULL THAT THE *ISRAELITES *WORSHIPPED – VERSES 1-35 A...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL THE PEOPLE BRAKE OFF THE GOLDEN EARRINGS. — Aaron had miscalculated the strength of the people’s fanaticism. Not the slightest resistance was offered to his requirement, not the slightest objectio...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙ כָּל ־הָ עָ֔ם אֶת ־נִזְמֵ֥

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXII. _ THE GOLDEN CALF._ Exodus 32:1 While God was thus providing for Israel, what had Israel done with God? They had grown weary of waiting: had despaired of and slighted their heroic lea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    AARON'S GOLDEN CALF OFFENDS THE LORD Exodus 32:1 The people never thought of taking Aaron as a substitute for Moses, because they instinctively recognized his moral weakness. Though he was dressed i...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately following the account of this period of communion between Moses and God we have the record of the sin of the people. When they said, "Up, make us Gods," they were seeking something to repr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And all the people brake off the (c) golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron. (c) Such is the rage of idolaters, that they spare no cost to satisfy their wicked desi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What an awful account! Psalms 106:20....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Whilst God was thus preparing the precious things connected with His relationship with His people [1], the people, only thinking of what they saw in the human instrument of their deliverance, complete...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THE PEOPLE BRAKE OFF THE GOLDEN EARRINGS, WHICH WERE IN THEIR EARS,.... The men took off their earrings, and persuaded their wives and children, or obliged them to part with theirs; though the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron. Ver. 3. _Brake off the golden ear-rings._] Which they had got of the Egyptians. Exo 12:35 T...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The people brake off their ear-rings_ Whereby they showed both their madness upon their idols, and their base ingratitude to God, who had transferred these jewels from the Egyptians to them....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The people in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calfe. 7 God is angred thereby. 11 At the intreatie of Moses he is appeased. 15 Moses commeth downe with the Tables. 19 He breaketh them...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD DIVISION The legislation as modified by the lapse of the people, and the intensified distinction between Jehovah and Israel as expressed in the more hierarchical constitution of the theocracy...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GOLDEN CALF (vs.1-6) Moses forty days in the mount (the number of testing) was too much for the impatient children of Israel. They gathered to Aaron in united determination to have some substitut...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 While Moses was in the mount, receiving the law from God, the people made a tumultuous address to Aaron. This giddy multitude were weary of waiting for the return of Moses. Weariness in waiting b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whereby they show both their madness upon their idols, and their base ingratitude to their God, who had transferred these jewels from the Egyptians to them, EXODUS 12:35,36, which therefore God upbrai...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We have now to contemplate something very different from that Which has hitherto engaged our attention. " The pattern of things in the heavens," has been before us Christ in His glorious Person, graci...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 32:3 people H5971 off H6561 (H8691) golden H2091 earrings H5141 ears H241 brought H935 (H8686) Aaron...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE'S REBELLION AND THE MOLTEN CALF (EXODUS 32:1). While Moses was in the Mount for forty days and forty nights receiving his instructions from Yahweh, the people waiting in the plain below bec...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 32:1. _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 u...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The broken law; Israel worships a golden calf. Intercession of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Joshua. CONCLUSION: It is a great sin to make gold, or anything else, a god, as those d...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 32:1. _Unto Aaron._ Some copies read, the people gathered themselves together _against_ Aaron. He sinned through fear of man; but as the Lord did not punish him with the revolters, the latter w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Up, make us gods._ IDOLATRY I. The very essence of idolatry is not spiritual ignorance and obtuseness, but a wilful turning away from the spiritual knowledge and worship of God. 1. This act of ido...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS 32:1 Covenant Breach, Intercession, and Renewal. This section illustrates Israel’s need for sanctification from the Lord. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 32:1. Zeh Mosheh häish = this Moses _the man_]. The Israelites, thinking that “the man” who brought them out of the land of Egypt had acted the part of a truant, and that they...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE IDOLATRY OF THE GOLDEN CALF. During the absence of Moses in Mount Sinai, an absence of nearly six weeks, the Israelites grew impatient, and regarding their leader as lost to them, and t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when the people saw that Moses had delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered to Aaron, and they said unto him, Get up, and make us gods, that shall go before us; for as for Moses, we do...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 17:3 Judges 17:4 Isaiah 40:19 Isaiah 40:20 Isaiah 46:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And all the people brake off their ear — rings — Which Aaron melted down, and, having a mold prepared, poured the melted gold into it, and then produced it in the shape of an ox or calf, giving it som...

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