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Exodus 32:31

And Moses returned unto the Lord and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold! It was a flagrant case of idolatry in a form which the Lord had expressly condemned, Exodus 20:23.

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See also Exodus 32:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 32:31. _MOSES RETURNED UNTO THE LORD_] Before he went down from the mountain God had acquainted him with the general defection of the people, whereupon he immediately, without knowing th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 we...

  • 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,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RETURNED. Moses' fifth ascent. See note on Exodus 19:8....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Moses, with noble disinterestedness, offers his own life, if he can thereby secure his people's pardon: Jehovah replies that He cannot on these terms take the life of the innocent; but He yields so fa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _returned_ viz. to the mountain. _Oh_ Heb. _"ânnâ_, a particle of entreaty: Genesis 50:17 - _Oh_, forgive, we pray"; Isaiah 38:3 - _Oh_, Lord"; Nehemiah 1:5 (EVV. -I beseech thee")....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 107 MOSES INTERCEDES FOR ISRAEL Exodus 32:31. And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold! Yet now, if thou wilt for...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MOSES RETURNED UNTO THE LORD, AND SAID— See Deuteronomy 9:18....

  • 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 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 th...

  • 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

    MOSES’ INTERCESSION ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE. (30-35) When Moses had, on first hearing of God’s intention to destroy the people, interceded for them (Exodus 32:11), his prayers had received no direct a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOSES RETURNED UNTO THE LORD — _i.e._, re-ascended Sinai, to the place where he had passed the forty days and nights. Gods of gold. — Rather, _a god of gold._ (Comp. Note 3 on Exodus 32:1.) The plura...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֧שָׁב מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶל ־יְהוָ֖ה וַ יֹּאמַ֑ר

  • 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

    MOSES PUNISHES IDOLATERS AND PRAYS FOR THE PEOPLE Exodus 32:25 The heart of Moses was full of that wonderful new word, _atonement_. For many days Jehovah had been speaking to him about it. But he see...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, Moses doth not now presume to say that they are the Lord's people, but he calls them this people. Observe how he pleads for great mercy, because of great transgression. David uses the same ar...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._And Moses returned unto the Lord _This relation does not stand in its proper place, since, as we have already said, Moses does not exactly preserve the order of time. For we shall see in the next...

  • 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 MOSES RETURNED UNTO THE LORD,.... On the mount where he was in the cloud: AND SAID, OH, THIS PEOPLE HAVE SINNED A GREAT SIN; which to following words explain; he confesses the same to God he had...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Ver. 31. _Made them gods of gold._] Sin must not be confessed in the lump only, a...

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

    _O, this people have sinned a great sin_ God had first told him of it, (Exodus 32:7,) and now he tells God of it, by way of lamentation. He doth not call them God's people, he knew they were unworthy...

  • 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

    30-35 Moses calls it a great sin. The work of ministers is to show people the greatness of their sins. The great evil of sin appears in the price of pardon. Moses pleads with God for mercy; he came n...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • 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 32:31 Moses H4872 returned H7725 (H8799) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Oh H577 people H5971 committed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES SEEKS TO SET THE SITUATION RIGHT (EXODUS 32:29). Exodus 32:29 ‘And Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother. That he may bes...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 32:31 I. There are three reasons why intercession is a very high duty. (1) It is a power given to every man to wield, a mighty instrument for which we are responsible. (2) It is love's utteran...

  • 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

    _If Thou wilt forgive their sin._ MOSES INTERCEDING FOR THE PEOPLE It was a very happy thing for Israel that they had an intercessor. It is not that God needs it. God does not need the intercession o...

  • 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

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 32:30_ RELIGIOUS PATRIOTISM It has often been brought as a charge against Christianity that it is adverse to patriotism. It is true that the spirit of Chris...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MOSES ONCE MORE INTERCEDES WITH GOD FOR THE PEOPLE—GOD ANSWERS HIM. No distinct reply seems to have been given to the previous intercession of Moses (Exodus 32:11-2). He

  • 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

    returned Exodus 34:28 Deuteronomy 9:18 Deuteronomy 9:19 sinned Exodus 32:30...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Oh, this people have sinned a great sin — God had first told him of it, Exodus 32:7, and now he tells God of it by way of lamentation. He doth not call them God's people, he knew they were unworthy to...

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