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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 34:10-17

10-17 The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Proverbs 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MARVELS - Explained in the following verse. Compare 2 Samuel 7:23; Psalms 77:14....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah declares His purpose of concluding a covenant with His people, to be confirmed by wonders of a character to convince all of His power and greatness. The wonders meant are such as those narrate...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The (re-)establishment of the covenant, with the laws upon which it is based. The passage belongs in the main to E; but it has probably been enlarged in parts with hortatory additions by the compiler....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE A COVENANT— The terms of this covenant are delivered in this and the 11th verse: God promises to drive out the inhabitants of Canaan on his part; the Israelites, on theirs,...

  • 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

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:10 done (a-21) Lit. 'created.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִי֮ כֹּרֵ֣ת בְּרִית֒...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._And he said, Behold, I make a covenant _It is not specified with whom God would make the covenant. Some interpreters, (386) therefore, supply the name of Moses, and this they seem to do on probabl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the...

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

    _Behold I make a covenant_ When the covenant was broken, it was Israel that broke it; now it comes to be renewed, it is God that makes it; if there be quarrels, we must bear all the blame; if there be...

  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GRACIOUS PROMISE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And He said, Behold, I make a covenant, in the place of or in addition to that which had been broken by Israel's idolatry: BEFORE ALL THE PEOPLE, in their presence, in their sight, I WILL DO MARVELS,...

  • 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 Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BEHOLD, I MAKE A COVENANT, i.e. I do hereby renew my covenant with thy people which they had violated and voided by their sin. But the shortness of the phrase, there being no mention here of any with...

  • 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 34:10 said H559 (H8799) make H3772 (H8802) covenant H1285 people H5971 do H6213 (H8799) marvels...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH CONFIRMS THAT HE IS RENEWING THE COVENANT (EXODUS 34:10). God replies by confirming the covenant and guaranteeing the receipt of the inheritance. He does not need to repeat the ten words. He ha...

  • 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

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    I make Exodus 24:7 Exodus 24:8 Deuteronomy 4:13 Deuteronomy 5:2 Deu

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Behold I make a covenant — When the covenant was broke, it was Israel that broke it; now it comes to be renewed, it is God that makes it. If there be quarrels, we must bear all the blame; if there be...

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