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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. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. In righteous indignation, preserving those sacred tablets from the profane touch of the polluted people, by dashing them to fragments in his holy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. Think of the courage of this one man, to go single handed right into the middle of the idolaters’ camp, and deal thus with their precious god!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. See the power of this one man who has God at his back, and God in him. While the people are dancing around their idol, he tears it down, grinds it to powder, and says, “You shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my Lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies) then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Moses does not spare Aaron, he lays at his door the guilt of the great sin he had committed: “Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. Such a colossal crime as that must be expiated before the Lord could again bless the chosen race.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-, There he broke down, he could not finish that sentence.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. “Let me die in their stead!” But God could not accept one man in the stead of another; there is a great Substitute, ordained of old, but he is more than man, and therefore he can stand in the sinner’s stead.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the...