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Exodus 33:12-16

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 33:12 God has promised to send an “angel” to lead his rebellious people into the land (v. Exodus 33:2), but Moses demands that the Lord himself go with them (v. Exodus 33:15). God agrees to do this, and his presence is demonstrated personally to Moses (Exodus 33:17) and publicly as well (chs. Exodus 35:1).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 33:12. _MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD_] We may suppose that after Moses had quitted the tabernacle he went to the camp, and gave the people some general information relative to the conversatio...

  • 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

    WHOM. As promised in Exodus 32:34. BY NAME. Compare Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 49:1. In the presence of corporate failure all is individual, compare...

  • 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 complains to Jehovah that He has not treated him with the confidence that He had given him reason to expect. _Bring up_ viz. into Canaan, like -go up," _v._1. So _carry up, v._15. _whom thou wi...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 109 PAST MERCIES PLEADED BEFORE GOD Exodus 33:12. _Thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD— Moses having received, as we may suppose, sufficient proofs of the contrition of the people for their abominable idolatry, now returns to the tabernacle, and renews his i...

  • 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 MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD, SEE, THOU SAYEST UNTO ME, BRING UP THIS PEOPLE: AND THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME. YET THOU HAST SAID, I KNOW THEE BY NAME, AND THOU HAST ALSO FO...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW] The whole of this passage from Exodus 33:7 may be independent of what goes before (cp. the expression 'used to take' in Exodus 33:7). Otherwise we must suppose that Moses ha...

  • 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

    THOU HAST NOT LET ME KNOW WHOM THOU WILT SEND. — Moses finds the promises of Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2 ambiguous. What is meant by “mine angel” and “an angel?” Is it the “Angel” of Exodus 23:20, or no...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶל ־יְהוָ֗ה רְ֠אֵה אַתָּ

  • 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 Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by (e) name, and thou hast also...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    To the Lord. This conversation probably took place on Mount Horeb, (ver. 22,) after God had threatened that he would not go up with the people, chap. xxxii. 34. And here (ver. 3,) Moses, considering t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! I charge it upon you that you keep in view him whom Moses represented, through the whole of this most interesting interview. Is it not by him, whom the Father heareth always, every token of di...

  • 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

    12._See, thou, sayest unto me, Bring up this people _Moses is still diligently engaged in endeavoring to reconcile the people, for the fuller promise was inserted by way of anticipation. Since the rev...

  • 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 MOSES SAID UNTO THE LORD,.... Having returned from the camp to the tabernacle again; SEE, THOU SAYEST UNTO ME, BRING UP THIS PEOPLE: from hence to the land of Canaan, as in Exodus 33:1 AND THOU...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also fou...

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

    _And Moses said unto the Lord_ It is likely that Moses, being satisfied with the penitence of the people, returned to the tabernacle, and there had this communication with God, in which he is an impor...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD PROMISES HIS GRACIOUS PRESENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Moses said unto the Lord, See, Thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people; and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. The people having given such unmistakable evidences of a real c...

  • 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

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  • 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

    WHOM THOU WILT SEND WITH ME, i.e. what angel it is, whether it be a created angel, for then I profess I am unsatisfied with him, EXODUS 33:15; or the same uncreated Angel Christ, who hath hitherto acc...

  • 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 33:12 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 See H7200 (H8798) say H559 (H8802) up...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES WRESTLES WITH YAHWEH ABOUT HIS DECISION NOT TO GO WITH THEM (EXODUS 33:12). The general fact about Moses' relationship with God having been made clear, Moses now comes to Yahweh to plead for a r...

  • 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 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 REVOCATION OF THE THREAT OF WITHDRAWAL. After some days' "wrestling with God" in the "tent of meeting," Moses prayed to know definitely what God had determined on. "Show me thy way," he...

  • 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

    see Exodus 33:1 Exodus 32:34 I know Exodus 33:17 Genesis 18:19 Psalms 1:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Moses now returned to the door of the tabernacle, as an important supplicant for two favours, and prevails for both: herein he was a type of Christ the great intercessor, whom the Father heareth alway...

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