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Exodus Chapter 32

Exodus

exo 32:0

Overview

Exo 32:1, The people, in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calf; Exo 32:7, God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails; Exo 32:15, Moses comes down with the tables; Exo 32:19, He breaks them; Exo 32:20, He destroys the calf; Exo 32:22, Aaron's excuse for himself; Exo 32:25, Moses causes the idolaters to be slain; Exo 32:30, He prays for the people.

Exodus 32:1

exo 32:1

am 2513, bc 1491, An, Ex, Is 1, Ab

delayed: Exo 24:18; Deu 9:9; Mat 24:43; Pe2 3:4

Up: Gen 19:14, Gen 44:4; Jos 7:13

make: Exo 20:3-5; Deu 4:15-18; Act 7:40, Act 17:29, Act 19:26

which shall: Exo 13:21, Exo 33:3, Exo 33:14, Exo 33:15

the man: Exo 32:7, Exo 32:11, Exo 14:11, Exo 16:3; Hos 12:13; Mic 6:4

we wot: Gen 21:26, Gen 39:8, Gen 44:15; Mat 24:48; Pe2 3:4

Exodus 32:2

exo 32:2

Exo 12:35, Exo 12:36; Gen 24:22, Gen 24:47; Jdg 8:24-27; Eze 16:11, Eze 16:12, Eze 16:17; Hos 2:8

Exodus 32:3

exo 32:3

Jdg 17:3, Jdg 17:4; Isa 40:19, Isa 40:20, Isa 46:6; Jer 10:9

Exodus 32:4

exo 32:4

fashioned: Exo 20:23; Deu 9:16; Psa 106:19-21; Isa 44:9, Isa 44:10, Isa 46:6; Act 7:41, Act 17:29

a graving: Exo 28:9, Exo 28:11

calf: Kg1 12:28, Kg1 12:32; Kg2 10:29; Ch2 11:15, Ch2 13:8; Hos 8:4, Hos 8:5, Hos 10:5, Hos 13:2

These: Exo 32:8; Jdg 17:3, Jdg 17:4; Neh 9:18; Isa 40:18, Isa 40:19; Rom 1:21-23

which brought: Exo 32:1, Exo 32:8, Exo 20:2

Exodus 32:5

exo 32:5

Aaron: Sa1 14:35; Kg2 16:11; Hos 8:11, Hos 8:14

made proclamation: Lev 23:2, Lev 23:4, Lev 23:21, Lev 23:37; Kg1 21:9; Kg2 10:20; Ch2 30:5

a feast: Exo 32:4, Exo 10:9, Exo 12:14; Kg1 12:32, Kg1 12:33; Co1 5:8

Exodus 32:6

exo 32:6

offered: Exo 24:4, Exo 24:5

sat down: No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians. Num 25:2; Jdg 16:23-25; Amo 2:8, Amo 8:10; Act 7:41, Act 7:42; Co1 10:7; Rev 11:10

Exodus 32:7

exo 32:7

Go: Exo 19:24, Exo 33:1; Deu 9:12; Dan 9:24

thy people: Exo 32:1, Exo 32:11

corrupted: Gen 6:11, Gen 6:12; Deu 4:16, Deu 32:5; Jdg 2:19; Hos 9:9

Exodus 32:8

exo 32:8

have turned: Deu 9:16; Jdg 2:17

which I: Exo 20:3, Exo 20:4, Exo 20:23

These be: Exo 32:4; Kg1 12:28

Exodus 32:9

exo 32:9

I have seen: Deu 9:13; Jer 13:27; Hos 6:10

a stiffnecked: Exo 33:3, Exo 33:5, Exo 34:9; Deu 9:6, Deu 9:13, Deu 10:16, Deu 31:27; Ch2 30:8; Neh 9:17; Psa 78:8; Pro 29:1; Isa 48:4; Zac 7:11, Zac 7:12; Act 7:51

Exodus 32:10

exo 32:10

let me alone: Gen 18:32, Gen 18:33, Gen 32:26-28; Num 14:19, Num 14:20, Num 16:22, Num 16:45-48; Deu 9:14, Deu 9:19; Jer 14:11, Jer 15:1; Jam 5:16

my wrath: Exo 32:11, Exo 32:19, Exo 22:24

and I will: Num 14:12; Deu 9:14, Deu 9:19

Exodus 32:11

exo 32:11

besought: Deu 9:18-20, Deu 9:26-29; Psa 106:23

the Lord his God: Heb. the face of the Lord

why doth: Num 11:11, Num 16:22; Deu 9:18-20; Psa 74:1, Psa 74:2; Isa 63:17; Jer 12:1, Jer 12:2

which thou: Exo 32:7

Exodus 32:12

exo 32:12

should: Num 14:13-16; Deu 9:28, Deu 32:26, Deu 32:27; Jos 7:9; Psa 74:18, Psa 79:9, Psa 79:10; Eze 20:9, Eze 20:14, Eze 20:22

Turn from: Deu 13:17; Jos 7:26; Ezr 10:14; Psa 78:38, Psa 85:3

repent: Exo 32:14; Gen 6:6; Deu 32:36; Psa 90:13, Psa 106:45; Amo 7:3, Amo 7:6; Jon 3:9; Zac 8:14

Exodus 32:13

exo 32:13

Remember: Lev 26:42; Deu 7:8, Deu 9:27; Luk 1:54, Luk 1:55

to whom: Gen 22:16, Gen 26:3, Gen 26:4; Heb 6:13

I will multiply: Gen 12:2, Gen 12:7, Gen 13:15, Gen 13:16, Gen 15:5, Gen 15:7, Gen 15:18, Gen 26:4, Gen 28:13, Gen 28:14, Gen 35:11, Gen 35:12, Gen 48:16

Exodus 32:14

exo 32:14

Deu 32:26; Sa2 24:16; Ch1 21:15; Psa 106:45; Jer 18:8, Jer 26:13, Jer 26:19; Joe 2:13; Jon 3:10, Jon 4:2

Exodus 32:15

exo 32:15

turned: Exo 24:18; Deu 9:15

the testimony: Exo 16:34, Exo 40:20; Deu 5:22; Psa 19:7

written: Rev 5:1

Exodus 32:16

exo 32:16

Exo 31:18, Exo 34:1, Exo 34:4; Deu 9:9-11, Deu 9:15, Deu 10:1; Co2 3:3, Co2 3:7; Heb 8:10

Exodus 32:17

exo 32:17

Joshua had waited patiently during all the forty days, in the place where Moses had left him - below the summit of the mount, at a distance from the people, and out of the way of temptation.

Joshua: Exo 17:9, Exo 24:13

they shouted: Exo 32:18; Ezr 3:11-13; Psa 47:1

There is a noise: Jos 6:5, Jos 6:10, Jos 6:16, Jos 6:20; Jdg 15:14; Sa1 4:5, Sa1 4:6, Sa1 17:20, Sa1 17:52; Job 39:25; Jer 51:14; Amo 1:14, Amo 2:2

Exodus 32:18

exo 32:18

being overcome: Heb. weakness

but the: Exod. 15:1-18; Dan 5:4, Dan 5:23

Exodus 32:19

exo 32:19

he saw: Exo 32:4-6; Deu 9:16, Deu 9:17

the dancing: Exo 15:20; Sa2 6:14; Lam 5:15

anger: Exo 32:11; Num 12:3; Mat 5:22; Mar 3:5, Mar 10:14; Eph 4:26

brake them: Deu 9:17, Deu 27:26; Jer 31:32; Zac 11:10, Zac 11:11, Zac 11:14

Exodus 32:20

exo 32:20

took the calf: How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold, the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In Deu 9:21, this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is, melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and stamped it, beat it into thin lamine, something like our gold leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words ekkoth, and dak, imply. Deu 7:5, Deu 7:25, Deu 9:21; Kg2 23:6, Kg2 23:15

made the: Pro 1:31, Pro 14:14

Exodus 32:21

exo 32:21

Gen 20:9, Gen 26:10; Deu 13:6-8; Sa1 26:19; Jos 7:19-26; Kg1 14:16, Kg1 21:22; Kg2 21:9-11

Exodus 32:22

exo 32:22

knowest: Exo 14:11, Exo 15:24, Exo 16:2-4, Exo 16:20, Exo 16:28, Exo 17:2-4; Deu 9:7, Deu 9:24

that they are: Deu 31:27; Sa1 15:24; Psa 36:4; Pro 4:16

Exodus 32:23

exo 32:23

Exo 32:1-4, Exo 32:8

Exodus 32:24

exo 32:24

So they: Exo 32:4; Gen 3:12, Gen 3:13; Luk 10:29; Rom 3:10

Exodus 32:25

exo 32:25

naked: The term naked may mean either that they were unarmed and defenceless, or ashamed from the consciousness of guilt. Exo 33:4-6; Gen 3:10; Isa 47:3; Hos 2:3; Mic 1:11; Rev 3:17, Rev 3:18, Rev 16:15

Aaron: Deu 9:20; Ch2 28:19

shame: Eze 16:63; Dan 12:2; Rom 6:21

their enemies: Heb. those that rose up against them

Exodus 32:26

exo 32:26

Who is on: Jos 5:13; Sa2 20:11; Kg2 9:32; Mat 12:30

Exodus 32:27

exo 32:27

slay every man: Exo 32:26, Exo 32:29; Num 25:5, Num 25:7-12; Deu 33:8, Deu 33:9; Luk 14:26; Co2 5:16

Exodus 32:28

exo 32:28

children: Deu 33:9; Mal 2:4-6

there fell: Num 16:32-35, Num 16:41; Co1 10:8; Heb 2:2, Heb 2:3

Exodus 32:29

exo 32:29

Or, another reading of this verse is, and Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord; because every man hath been against his son and against his brother, etc.

Moses: Num 25:11-13; Deu 13:6-11, Deu 33:9, Deu 33:10; Sa1 15:18-22; Pro 21:3; Joe 2:12-14; Zac 13:3; Mat 10:37

Consecrate: Heb. fill your hands

Exodus 32:30

exo 32:30

Ye have: Exo 32:31; Sa1 2:17, Sa1 12:20, Sa1 12:23; Sa2 12:9; Kg2 17:21; Luk 7:47, Luk 15:18

peradventure: Sa2 16:12; Amo 5:15; Jon 3:9; Ti2 2:25

an atonement: Exo 32:32; Num 16:47, Num 25:13; Job 42:7, Job 42:8; Rom 9:3; Gal 3:13; Jam 5:16

Exodus 32:31

exo 32:31

returned: Exo 34:28; Deu 9:18, Deu 9:19

sinned: Exo 32:30; Ezr 9:6, Ezr 9:7, Ezr 9:15; Neh 9:33; Dan 9:5, Dan 9:8, Dan 9:11

made: Exo 20:4, Exo 20:23

Exodus 32:32

exo 32:32

if thou: Num 14:19; Dan 9:18, Dan 9:19; Amo 7:2; Luk 23:34

blot me: Allusion may be made to the registry of births, in which those born of a particular tribe were entered in the list of their respective families under that tribe. This was the book of life; and when any died, his name might be considered as blotted out of this list. But as Moses addressed the Lord, he undoubtedly referred, by faith, to the book of God's remembrance. Exo 32:10; Deu 9:14, Deu 25:19, Deu 29:20; Psa 56:8, Psa 69:28, Psa 139:16; Eze 13:9; Dan 12:1; Rom 9:3; Phi 4:3; Rev 3:5, Rev 17:8, Rev 21:27, Rev 22:19

Exodus 32:33

exo 32:33

sinned: Lev 23:30; Psa 69:28; Eze 18:4

my book: Psa 109:13, Psa 109:14; Phi 4:3; Rev 13:8, Rev 20:12

Exodus 32:34

exo 32:34

mine Angel: Exo 23:20, Exo 33:2, Exo 33:14, Exo 33:15; Num 20:16; Isa 63:9

the day: Exo 20:5; Num 14:27-30; Deu 32:35; Jer 5:9, Jer 5:29; Amo 3:14; Mat 23:35; Rom 2:4-6

Exodus 32:35

exo 32:35

Exo 32:25; Sa2 12:9, Sa2 12:10; Mat 27:3-7; Act 1:18, Act 7:41


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