It is a stiff-necked people— An appellation frequently given to the Jews; who, like untamed and unruly oxen, would not bend and submit their necks to the yoke. Thy neck is an iron sinew, says the Lord by Isaiah, ch. Isaiah 48:4 alluding to the same idea. Compare Jeremiah 5:5.Hosea 4:16.
Verse Exodus 32:9. _A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE_] Probably an allusion to the stiff-necked ox, the object of their worship....
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...
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
EXODUS 32:1 E, EXODUS 32:7 Rje, EXODUS 32:15 E, EXODUS 32:25 J,...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6)....
Jehovah declares that He will exterminate the people: but allows Himself to be diverted from His purpose by Moses" intercession....
_stiffnecked_ so Exodus 33:3; Exodus 33:5; Exodus 34:9; Deuteronomy 9:6;...
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...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE, AND, BEHOLD, IT IS A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE:_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
STIFFNECKED] This common metaphor is taken from a stubborn ox that refuses to submit to the yoke. Cp. Zechariah 7:11; Hosea 4:16 (RV 'stubborn heifer'), Jeremiah 17:23;...
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...
IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE. — This phrase, afterwards so common (Exodus 33:3; Exodus 33:5; Exodus 34:5; Deuteronomy 9:6;...
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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...
AARON'S GOLDEN CALF OFFENDS THE LORD Exodus 32:1 The people never thought of taking Aaron as a substitute for Moses, because they instinctively recognized his moral weakness. Though he was dressed i...
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...
_And again. The Septuagint omit this verse. Moses, at the first intimation of the people's sin, fell prostrate before the Lord, to sue for pardon, and pleaded the natural weakness of an ungovernable m...
Deuteronomy 9:13. There is somewhat very interesting if spiritually considered, in this reasoning of Jehovah with Moses....
"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...
9._I have seen this people, and behold_. This was, indeed, the sharpest and sorest trial of the faith of Moses; when God seemed to contradict Himself and to depart from His covenant. If ever, after ha...
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...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE,.... He had observed their ways and works, their carriage and behaviour; he had seen them before this time; he knew from all eternity what they wo...
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: Ver. 9. _A stiffnecked people._] And so they are still to this very day. Jerome _a_ complains that in...
_A stiff-necked people_ Untractable, wilful, and stubborn; unapt to come under the yoke of the divine law, averse from all good, and prone to all evil, incorrigible by judgments, and obstinate to all...
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...
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, have observed it very closely, AND, BEHOLD, IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE, as rigid of neck as an unwilling draught-animal, Exodus 33:3; Exodus 34:...
MOSES INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE...
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...
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...
7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. Th...
Untractable, wilful, and stubborn, incorrigible by my judgments, ungovernable by mine or by any laws. A metaphor from those beasts that will not bend their necks to receive the yoke or bridle....
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...
Exodus 32:9 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 seen H7200 (H8804) people H5971 stiff-necked H7186...
YAHWEH INFORMS MOSES OF WHAT IS HAPPENING BELOW (EXODUS 32:7). a Yahweh said to Moses, “Go, get yourself down, for your people whom you brought up out of Egypt have corrupted themselves (Exodus 32:7...
Exodus 32:7. _And the LORD said unto Moses, Go get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:_ See how Jehovah will not own these idolaters...
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...
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...
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...
EXODUS 32:1 Covenant Breach, Intercession, and Renewal. This section illustrates Israel’s need for sanctification from the Lord. ⇐ ⇔
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 32:7_ INTERCESSION Consider— I. THE SIN AND PERIL OF ISRAEL. Their sin was the more grievous because it came after such wonderful manifestations of God’s p...
EXPOSITION THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES. Moses, in Sinai, was so far removed from the camp, and the cloud so shut out his vision of it, that he had neither seen nor heard anything unusual, and was wholly...
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...
I have seen Deuteronomy 9:13 Jeremiah 13:27 Hosea 6:10 a stiff-necked Exodus 33:3...
It is a stiff — necked people — Unapt to come under the yoke of the divine law, averse to all good, and prone to evil, obstinate to the methods of cure....