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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said unto Moses, Just in the midst of his hallowed communion, the Lord said to him: — Exo_32:7. Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: God would not own them as his people. He called them Moses’ people: “thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: How startled Moses must have been when Jehovah said this to him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 as his people. He says to Moses, “Thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation, "on Sinai, saying, ye shall not make to yourselves an image, or figure, or any similitude.'' This was the command God had given to them; this the way he had directed them to walk in; from this they turned aside, by making...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, these are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 would be, that their neck would be as an iron sinew, and their brow brass; but now he saw that in fact which he before saw as future, and they proved...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now, therefore, let me alone,.... And not solicit him with prayers and supplications in favour of these people, but leave him to take his own way with them, without troubling him with any suit on their behalf; and so the Targum of Jonathan, "and now leave off thy prayer, and do not cry for them before me;'' as the Prophet Jeremiah was often bid...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. “I will keep my promise to Abraham by destroying these rebels, and taking thee, his true descendant, and fulfilling the covenant in thee.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Moses besought the Lord his God,.... As the Lord was the God of Moses, his covenant God, and he had an interest in him, he made use of it in favour of the people of Israel: and said, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people? so as to think or speak of consuming them utterly; otherwise he knew there was reason for his being angry and wroth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, — See how he dares even to say to God, “They are thy people, though they have acted so wickedly. ‘Why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people,’” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Moses will not have it that they are his people, nor that he brought them out of the land of Egypt; but he declares that they are God’s people, and that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say,.... Those that remained, as the Targum of Jonathan, who were not drowned in the Red sea: a good man will be concerned for the honour and glory of God among the enemies of his people, that their mouths may not be opened to blaspheme the Lord and speak ill of his ways, see Joshua 7:9 and this is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants,.... The covenant he made with them, the promise he had made unto them, with an oath annexed to it: to whom thou swarest by thine own self; which he did, because he could swear by no greater; and for the confirmation of his covenant and promise, see Genesis 22:16 and saidst unto them; for what was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. He did not do what he threatened to do, and seemed to have in his thoughts and designs, but did what Moses desired he would, Exodus 32:12 not that any of God's thoughts or the determinations of his mind are alterable; for the thoughts of his heart are to all generations; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, Does it not seem sad for Moses to have to go down from the immediate presence of God, and to stand among the idolatrous and rebellious people in the camp? Yet that is often the lot of those whom God employs as his servants....