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Exodus 32:34

Therefore go now, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee, all of which indicated that He would spare the people at this time. Behold, Mine Angel shall go before thee, the Son of God Himself accompanied the army on its march; nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. The time would come when their period of grace would be at an end, when the Lord's revenge would strike them, when His judicial visitation would be upon them.

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See also Exodus 32:34 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 32:34. _LEAD THE PEOPLE UNTO_ THE PLACE] The word _place_ is not in the text, and is with great propriety omitted. For Moses never led this people into that place, they all died in the w...

  • 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

    BEHOLD. A special reading (Severna Codex, App-34) has "and behold". See App-34. MINE ANGEL. Probably an inferior angel, not that of Exodus 23:20; Exodus 23:21. WHEN. VISIT. Figure of speech _Polyptot...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    He yields, however, so far to Moses" entreaty as to put off the punishment of the people to an indefinite future, and to bid Moses lead Israel on to Canaan, under the guidance not indeed of Himself pe...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LEAD THE PEOPLE UNTO THE PLACE, &C.— For an exposition of this verse, we refer to the 1st verse of the next chapter. _Nevertheless, in the day when I visit,_ &c. seems to refer to some future and grea...

  • 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

    _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._ Le...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MINE ANGEL] see on Exodus 3:2. The angel here seems to be distinguished from God Himself: see Exodus 33:3. On the other hand, the angel is virtually identified with God, for God's 'presence' goes with...

  • 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

    LEAD THE PEOPLE UNTO THE PLACE OF WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN — _i.e.,_ continue their leader until Palestine is reached. (See Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Exodus 6:4, &c.) MINE ANGEL SHALL GO BEFORE THEE. — So f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֞ה לֵ֣ךְ ׀ נְחֵ֣ה אֶת ־הָ עָ֗ם

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (p) 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....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I venture to believe that this angel was not the Almighty angel of the covenant, but only some ordinary servant in token of God's displeasure. See Exodus 33:2....

  • 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

    34._Therefore now go, lead the people _In these words God shews that He is appeased, for it was a sure sign of His reconciliation that His angel is appointed to guide them during the rest of their way...

  • 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

    THEREFORE NOW GO, LEAD THE PEOPLE [UNTO THE] PLACE OF WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEE,.... That is, to the land of Canaan, which he had promised to their fathers and to them, and had directed Moses to b...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ve...

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

    _My angel shall go before thee_ Some created angel that was employed in the common services of his kingdom, which intimated that they were not to expect any thing for the future to be done for them ou...

  • 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

    BEHOLD, MINE ANGEL; not Christ, the Angel of the covenant, who had hitherto gone before them; but a created angel, as appears by comparing this with EXODUS 33:2,3,12; though Moses obtained the revocat...

  • 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 32:34 go H3212 (H8798) lead H5148 (H8798) people H5971 spoken H1696 (H8765) Angel H4397 go...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold my angel will go before you. Nevertheless in the day that I visit I will visit their sin on them.” And Yahweh smote the...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • 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 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 32:33 The Lord determines whose names will be in his BOOK. Compare “the book of the living” (Psalms 69:28), “the book” ...

  • 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

    mine Angel Exodus 23:20 Exodus 33:2 Exodus 33:14 Exodus 33:15 Numbers 20:16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My angel shall go before them — Some created angel that was employed in the common services of his kingdom, which intimated that they were not to expect any thing for the future to be done for them ou...

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