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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Exodus 32

Chapter 32

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 us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

A. M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Ab. delayed

24:18 Deuteronomy 9:9 Matthew 24:43 2 Peter 3:4

Up

Genesis 19:14 44:4 Joshua 7:13

make

20:3-5 Deuteronomy 4:15-18 Acts 7:40 17:29 19:26

which shall

13:21 33:3,14,15

the man

7,11 14:11 16:3 Hosea 12:13 Micah 6:4

we wot

Genesis 21:26 39:8 44:15 Matthew 24:48 2 Peter 3:4

And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

12:35,36 Genesis 24:22,47 Judges 8:24-27 Ezekiel 16:11,12,17 Hosea 2:8

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Judges 17:3,4 Isaiah 40:19,20 46:6 Jeremiah 10:9

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

fashioned

20:23 Deuteronomy 9:16 Psalms 106:19-21 Isaiah 44:9,10 46:6 Acts 7:41 17:29

a graving

28:9,11

calf

1 Kings 12:28,32 2 Kings 10:29 2 Chronicles 11:15 13:8 Hosea 8:4,5 10:5 13:2

These

8 Judges 17:3,4 Nehemiah 9:18 Isaiah 40:18,19 Romans 1:21-23

which brought

1,8 20:2

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.

Aaron

1 Samuel 14:35 2 Kings 16:11 Hosea 8:11,14

made proclamation

Leviticus 23:2,4,21,37 1 Kings 21:9 2 Kings 10:20 2 Chronicles 30:5

a feast

4 10:9 12:14 1 Kings 12:32,33 1 Corinthians 5:8

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.

offered

24:4,5

sat down

No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians.

Numbers 25:2 Judges 16:23-25 Amos 2:8 8:10 Acts 7:41,42 1 Corinthians 10:7 Revelation 11:10

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:

Go

19:24 33:1 Deuteronomy 9:12 Daniel 9:24

thy people

1,11

corrupted

Genesis 6:11,12 Deuteronomy 4:16 32:5 Judges 2:19 Hosea 9:9

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.

have turned

Deuteronomy 9:16 Judges 2:17

which I

20:3,4,23

These be

4 1 Kings 12:28

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

I have seen

Deuteronomy 9:13 Jeremiah 13:27 Hosea 6:10

a stiff-necked

33:3,5 34:9 Deuteronomy 9:6,13 10:16 31:27 2 Chronicles 30:8 Nehemiah 9:17 Psalms 78:8 Proverbs 29:1 Isaiah 48:4 Zechariah 7:11,12 Acts 7:51

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.

let me alone

Genesis 18:32,33 32:26-28 Numbers 14:19,20 16:22,45-48 Deuteronomy 9:14,19 Jeremiah 14:11 15:1 James 5:16

my wrath

11,19 22:24

and I will

Numbers 14:12 Deuteronomy 9:14,19

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?

besought

Deuteronomy 9:18-20,26-29 Psalms 106:23

the Lord his God

Heb. the face of the Lord. why doth.

Numbers 11:11 16:22 Deuteronomy 9:18-20 Psalms 74:1,2 Isaiah 63:17 Jeremiah 12:1,2

which thou

Verse 12

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.

should

Numbers 14:13-16 Deuteronomy 9:28 32:26,27 Joshua 7:9 Psalms 74:18 79:9,10 Ezekiel 20:9,14,22

Turn from

Deuteronomy 13:17 Joshua 7:26 Ezra 10:14 Psalms 78:38 85:3

repent

14 Genesis 6:6 Deuteronomy 32:36 Psalms 90:13 106:45 Amos 7:3,6 Jonah 3:9 Zechariah 8:14

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Remember

Leviticus 26:42 Deuteronomy 7:8 9:27 Luke 1:54,55

to whom

Genesis 22:16 26:3,4 Hebrews 6:13

I will multiply

Genesis 12:2,7 13:15,16 15:5,7,18 26:4 28:13,14 35:11,12 48:16

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Deuteronomy 32:26 2 Samuel 24:16 1 Chronicles 21:15 Psalms 106:45 Jeremiah 18:8 26:13,19 Joel 2:13 Jonah 3:10 4:2

And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, 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.

turned

24:18 Deuteronomy 9:15

the testimony

16:34 40:20 Deuteronomy 5:22 Psalms 19:7

written

Revelation 5:1

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

31:18 34:1,4 Deuteronomy 9:9-11,15 10:1 2 Corinthians 3:3,7 Hebrews 8:10

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

Joshua

17:9 24:13

they shouted

18 Ezra 3:11-13 Psalms 47:1

There is a noise

Joshua 6:5,10,16,20 Judges 15:14 1 Samuel 4:5,6 17:20,52 Job 39:25 Jeremiah 51:14 Amos 1:14 2:2

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.

being overcome

Heb. weakness. but the.

15:1-18 Daniel 5:4,23

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.

he saw

4-6 Deuteronomy 9:16,17

the dancing

15:20 2 Samuel 6:14 Lamentations 5:15

anger

11 Numbers 12:3 Matthew 5:22 Mark 3:5 10:14 Ephesians 4:26

brake them

Deuteronomy 9:17 27:26 Jeremiah 31:32 Zechariah 11:10,11,14

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.

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 De 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 laminÊ, 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.

Deuteronomy 7:5,25 9:21 2 Kings 23:6,15

made the

Proverbs 1:31 14:14

And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

Genesis 20:9 26:10 Deuteronomy 13:6-8 1 Samuel 26:19 Joshua 7:19-26 1 Kings 14:16 21:22 2 Kings 21:9-11

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

knowest

14:11 15:24 16:2-4,20,28 17:2-4 Deuteronomy 9:7,24

that they are

Deuteronomy 31:27 1 Samuel 15:24 Psalms 36:4 Proverbs 4:16

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 Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

1-4,8

And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

So they

4 Genesis 3:12,13 Luke 10:29 Romans 3:10

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

naked

The term naked may mean either that they were unarmed and defenceless, or ashamed from the consciousness of guilt.

33:4-6 Genesis 3:10 Isaiah 47:3 Hosea 2:3 Micah 1:11 Revelation 3:17,18 16:15

Aaron

Deuteronomy 9:20 2 Chronicles 28:19

shame

Ezekiel 16:63 Daniel 12:2 Romans 6:21

their enemies

Heb. those that rose up against them.

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.

Who is on

Joshua 5:13 2 Samuel 20:11 2 Kings 9:32 Matthew 12:30

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, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

slay every man

26,29 Numbers 25:5,7-12 Deuteronomy 33:8,9 Luke 14:26 2 Corinthians 5:16

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

children

Deuteronomy 33:9 Malachi 2:4-6

there fell

Numbers 16:32-35,41 1 Corinthians 10:8 Hebrews 2:2,3

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.

Moses

Numbers 25:11-13 Deuteronomy 13:6-11 33:9,10 1 Samuel 15:18-22 Proverbs 21:3 Joel 2:12-14 Zechariah 13:3 Matthew 10:37

Consecrate

Heb. fill your hands.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

Ye have

31 1 Samuel 2:17 12:20,23 2 Samuel 12:9 2 Kings 17:21 Luke 7:47 15:18

peradventure

2 Samuel 16:12 Amos 5:15 Jonah 3:9 2 Timothy 2:25

an atonement

32 Numbers 16:47 25:13 Job 42:7,8 Romans 9:3 Galatians 3:13 James 5:16

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

returned

34:28 Deuteronomy 9:18,19

sinned

30 Ezra 9:6,7,15 Nehemiah 9:33 Daniel 9:5,8,11

made

20:4,23

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

if thou

Numbers 14:19 Daniel 9:18,19 Amos 7:2 Luke 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.

10 Deuteronomy 9:14 25:19 29:20 Psalms 56:8 69:28 139:16 Ezekiel 13:9 Daniel 12:1 Romans 9:3 Philippians 4:3 Revelation 3:5 17:8 21:27 22:19

And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

sinned

Leviticus 23:30 Psalms 69:28 Ezekiel 18:4

my book

Psalms 109:13,14 Philippians 4:3 Revelation 13:8 20:12

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.

mine Angel

23:20 33:2,14,15 Numbers 20:16 Isaiah 63:9

the day

20:5 Numbers 14:27-30 Deuteronomy 32:35 Jeremiah 5:9,29 Amos 3:14 Matthew 23:35 Romans 2:4-6

And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

25 2 Samuel 12:9,10 Matthew 27:3-7 Acts 1:18 7:41