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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Exodus 34:3

This is said, not for the beasts, which are not capable of a law, but to restrain the presumption and curiosity of the people, by this argument, that even the beasts that come too near shall be destroyed, and much more man, whose knowledge aggravates his sin and punishment.

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See also Exodus 34:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY _ 1. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ 2. The proclamation of Jehovah (Exodus 34:5) 3. Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 34:1 J. THE COVENANT WORDS. After removing Exodus 34:5, the sublime account of the revelation of Yahweh's nature as mercy and truth in their unity, which follows on Exodus 33:23, the remainder...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Heb, _'ish._ See App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Moses is commanded to hew two tables of stone, similar to those which he had broken (Exodus 32:19), and bring them up Sinai to Jehovah. The former tables are said (Exodus 32:16) to have been themselve...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The precautions are similar to those taken in Exodus 19:12 f. _before_ rather, _in front of_, i.e. on the slopes in front of the mountain, towards its foot. As was pointed out on p. 347, the histori...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEW THEE TWO TABLES OF STONE, &C.— See Exodus 34:28. God being reconciled through Moses's intercession, the covenant is renewed. REFLECTIONS.—1. Moses is commanded to hew new tables for God to write u...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NO MAN SHALL COME UP WITH THEE, NEITHER LET ANY MAN BE SEEN THROUGHOUT ALL THE MOUNT; NEITHER LET THE FLOCKS NOR HERDS FEED BEFORE THAT MOUNT._ No man ... neither ... flocks nor herds. Although...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant relation with them. The conditions are the same as before. The Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    KINDLE NO FIRE] an act involving work. This law is observed by pious Jews at the present day. They have fires in their houses on the sabbath, but they employ a gentile to light and tend them: see on E...

  • 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 34 THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GOD’S *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM – VERSES 1-9...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NO MAN SHALL COME UP WITH THEE... — These stringent commands were new. On the previous occasion, Aaron, Hur, and the elders had ascended the mount part of the way (Exodus 24:9); and Joshua had accompa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXXIV. PREPARATIONS FOR A RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. (1-4) Before the covenant could be formally reestablished, before Israel could be replaced in the position forfeited by the idolatry of the golden ca...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִישׁ֙ לֹֽא ־יַעֲלֶ֣ה עִמָּ֔ךְ וְ גַם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXIV. _ THE VISION OF GOD._ Exodus 34:1 It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED Exodus 34:1 Before we can behold the vision of Eternal Love we must be willing to fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: “My soul, be ready in the morning.” (2) _S...

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

    Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was made to him. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His me...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Let no, &c. This was to impress all with sentiments of reverence._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Sweet is the private communion of God with the soul. See John 14:21....

  • 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

    3._And no man shall come up with thee _Again men as well as beasts are prohibited from access to the mount, as had been the case at the first promulgation of the Law, in order that the people might ob...

  • 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 NO MAN SHALL COME UP WITH THEE,.... Before, Aaron and his two sons, and the seventy elders of Israel, went up with Moses, though they did not go so near the Lord as he did; but now having sinned i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. Ver. 3. _Neither let any man be seen._] _See Trapp o...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Tables are renued. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the first Table. 28 Moses afte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount, that Isaiah anywhere in its neighborhood. The entire m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GLORIOUS VISION...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION The New Tables of the Law for the People prone to a Hierarchy. Clearer Revelation of God’s Grace. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. Stricter Commands concerning the Passover, the First-b...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-28) Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never came into the camp. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. This would have meant death...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 When God made man in his own image, the moral law was written in his heart, by the finger of God, without outward means. But since the covenant then made with man was broken, the Lord has used th...

  • 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 34:3 man H376 up H5927 (H8799) and H408 man H376 seen H7200 (H8735) mountain H2022 flocks...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES PREPARES TWO TABLETS OF STONE FOR THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COVENANT AND GOES UP TO MEET GOD (EXODUS 34:1). Exodus 34:1 ‘And Yahweh said to Moses, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. The new vision and commission. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). We cannot expect the benefit of God's promises unless we make conscie...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 34:1. _I will write upon these tables. Deuteronomy 10:4_. The Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. In the last clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Come up in the morning._ BE READY IN THE MORNING: AN ADDRESS FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE I. Be ready for a conscious contact with God in the future. 1. As a duty. 2. As a privilege. “In Thy presence is fu...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 34:3 As Moses goes to receive the law a second time, God decrees that NO ONE besides Moses is to BE SEEN THROUGHOUT ALL THE MOUNTAIN. This seems to be a stricter warning

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 34:1. Hew thee two tables of stone]. A task which could not have failed to make Moses feel abashed, and to impress him with a sense of humility as he reflected on his breaking...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    THE RESTORATION OF THE TWO TABLES, AND RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. EXPOSITION THE TWO TABLES RENEWED. The fervent and prolonged intercession of Moses had brought about the pardon of the people; and that...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And be ready in the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 19:12 Exodus 19:13 Exodus 19:21 Leviticus 16:17 1 Timothy 2:5

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