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Exodus 33:18

And he said, I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory. The success of Moses made him so bold that he desired to see the revelation of God in the totality of His attributes, as Isaiah saw it in the vision, Exodus 6.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 33:18. _SHOW ME THY GLORY_] Moses probably desired to see that which constitutes the peculiar glory or excellence of the Divine nature as it stands in reference to man. By many this is t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SHEW ME THY GLORY - The faithful servant of Yahweh, now assured by the success of his mediation, yearns, with the proper tendency of a devout spirit, for a more intimate communion with his divine Mast...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. MOSES' INTERCESSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 33 Repentance and Intercession _ 1. The word of the Lord and the people's repentance (Exodus 33:1)_ 2. The tabernacle without the camp (Exodus 33:7)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 33:1 J, EXODUS 33:5 E, EXODUS 33:12 J. YAHWEH'S PRESENCE. The sections of 34 have been glossed and disarranged. In Exodus 33:1 J, Yahweh's ref

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE. Moses....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Shew me_ Here, as a modern English reader would expect, -make me to _see_," not as in _v._13, -make me to _know_." _thy glory_ Thy full majesty....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Moses resumes the intercession broken off at _v._3; and starting from the command given him in Exodus 32:34 a, Exodus 33:1 a obtains from Jehovah (_vv._14 16, as the text stands; see, however, on _v._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Moses repeats, in a more definite form, his request of _v._13. He asks to be allowed to see Jehovah's glory; but is told in reply that he cannot see this in its fulness (_v._20); he may, however, have...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE SAID, I BESEECH THEE, SHEW ME THY GLORY, &C.— Moses, having obtained from the Lord a merciful remission of the dread penalties denounced upon the Israelites, proceeds now to request a confirmation...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 33 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of E-gypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 opportuniti...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHEW ME THY GLORY] What Moses asks, not out of curiosity but as a confirmation of the promise in Exodus 33:14, is impossible. No man can look upon God's unveiled glory and live (Exodus 33:20 : see on...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES (CONTINUED) 6. By the mount Horeb] RV 'from mount Horeb onward': this implies that they ceased wearing their ornaments. Their humiliation was lasting. Horeb] i.e. Sinai: see...

  • 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 33 THE *ISRAELITES REALISE THEIR *SIN – VERSES 1-6 V1 Then the *LO...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOSES’ REQUEST TO SEE GOD’S GLORY, AND GOD’S REPLY TO IT. (18-23) Not till he had received full assurance of the people’s restoration to favour did Moses prefer any request for himself. Then, however,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמַ֑ר הַרְאֵ֥נִי נָ֖א אֶת ־כְּבֹדֶֽךָ׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXIII. _ PREVAILING INTERCESSION._ Exodus 33:1 At this stage the first concession is announced: Moses shall lead the people to their rest, and God will send an angel with him. We have seen...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S PRESENCE PROMISED AND HIS GLORY SHOWN Exodus 33:12 When Moses found himself alone with God he made two outstanding requests: (1) _For God's presence_. “If _thou_ dost not go with me, I cannot...

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

    The command to go forward and possess the land was now repeated to the people. It is clear that the people felt that the promise of an angel to be sent before them was the lowering of a privilege. The...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy (g) glory. (g) Your face, your substance, and your majesty....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Glory, or face, ver. 13, 20. The angel was robed in darkness, which Moses begs may be removed. Tertullian supposes, he wished to behold the Messias. Many think he desired to contemplate the divine es...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, Moses had been long in the Mount with God, and yet now desired fresh communications of the divine presence. Reader! mark this down as a sure testimony of having tasted God's graciousness, tha...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DIVINE GLORY_ ‘Shew me Thy glory.’ Exodus 33:18 It was a fine aspiration, worthy of the man who uttered it and the occasion on which he spoke. It was the reaching out of a darker dispensation...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory _Thus far the desires of Moses had been confined within the limits of moderation and sobriety, but now he is carried beyond due bounds, and longs for...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. We have now to examine a little what was taking place among the people, and on Moses's part, the faithful and zealous witness, as a servant of God...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID, I BESEECH THEE, SHOW ME THY GLORY. Not any visible lustre, splendour, and brightness, as a symbol of the divine Presence, that he had seen, Exodus 16:7 nor the glorious essence of God, as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. Ver. 18. _Show me thy glory._] None ever knew God's glory; our cockle shell can never comprehend this sea: yet it may be apprehended that it is incompr...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 33:18-23. Moses, when he beseeches God to show him his glory, seems to have respect to a visible glory; something to be seen with his bodily eyes, yet not exclusive of an inward sweet sense of th...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 33:18, 19. "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. 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 t...

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

    _I beseech thee, show me thy glory_ Thy glorious majesty, the brightness of thy countenance, some such manifestation of thyself as becomes thy excellence, and such as shall be seen in the other life,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Lord refuseth to goe as he had promised with the people. 4 The people murmure thereat. 7 The Tabernacle is remoued out of the Campe. 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses. 12 Moses desire...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION Stricter Separation between Jehovah and the People. Removal of Moses’ Tent—the Provisional Tabernacle—out of the Camp. The Gracious Token Exodus 33:1-23 A. APPOINTMENT OF AN ANGEL TO...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    TOLD TO GO WITHOUT THE LORD'S PRESENCE (vs.1-23) Again the Lord gives instructions to Moses to depart with the people to go to the land of Canaan, affirming also that He would send His angel before t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-23 Moses is very earnest with God. Thus, by the intercession of Christ, we are not only saved from ruin, but become entitled to everlasting happiness. Observe here how he pleads. We find grace in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Thy glorious majesty, the brightness of thy countenance, some such manifestation of thyself as becomes thy excellency, and such as shall be seen in the other life; or that glorious shape which, t...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. "I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way." At the opening of this book, wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 33:18 said H559 (H8799) Please H4994 show H7200 (H8685) glory H3519 Exodus 33:20;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES REQUESTS TO SEE YAHWEH'S GLORY -AND DOES SO IN THE ONLY WAY THAT IS POSSIBLE EVEN TO HIM (EXODUS 33:18). Now Moses is emboldened. He has been privileged to see Yahweh more fully than any human b...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 33:18 It was a fine aspiration, worthy of the man who uttered it and the occasion on which he spoke. It was the reaching out of a darker dispensation after Gospel light, the reflections wishin...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 33:18 I. Consider what Moses desired when he prayed, "I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory." It could not have been a mere external display of glory and power. He had seen enough, and more than en...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The journey to be resumed. God's presence assured. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God's special presence with us in the wilderness by His Spirit and grace to direct, defend an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 33:2. _I will send an angel:_ a created angel. Proof demonstrative that the christian fathers are all correct in declaring that the Angel of the covenant, in Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:6;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Show me Thy Glory._ MOSES’ ASPIRATION It was a fine aspiration, worthy of the man who uttered it, and the occasion on which he spoke it--“Show me Thy glory.” It was the reaching out of a darker disp...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 33:1 This chapter describes the difficult time following the golden calf episode, as the Lord says he no longer will go AMONG his people (v. Exodus 33:3

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 33:18. Thy glory] = Kebodecha, from kabod = glory, _i.e_., the mysterious essential qualities of the Deity in all their magnificence and stupendousness. Moses felt forced to ma...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE REQUEST TO SEE GOD'S GLORY, AND THE REPLY TO IT. Having obtained the full restoration of the people to God's favour, Moses felt emboldened to ask a boon for himself. He had already been...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to Exodus chapter thirty-three that we might continue our study through the Word of God. And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up from here, you and the people which you have br...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 33:20 Psalms 4:6 John 1:18 2 Corinthians 3:18 2 Corinthians

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I beseech thee shew me thy glory — Moses had lately been in the mount with God, and had had as intimate communion with God, as ever any man had on this side heaven, and yet he is still desiring a fart...

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