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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. They were going to worship Jehovah under the emblem of an ox. This is what you will hear idolaters say; they do not worship the image, they say, but the true God under that image. Yet that is expressly forbidden under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. It was usual to worship false gods with music and dancing and with orgies of drunkenness and obscene rites, and the Israelites fell into the same evils as they had seen among their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Lascivious games were sure to accompany idolatrous worship, for idolatry always leads to filthiness in some form or other, as if it were inevitable.
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.”
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:...
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.”
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...
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...
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....
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, An unhappy, broken-hearted man, going from the closest communion with God, down into the midst of a wicked people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides, on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. Moses knew that it was not a battle cry either of the victors or the vanquished; but the song of idolatrous worshippers.