Exodus 32:2-8
<06696> [fashioned.]
engraving tool <02747> [a graving.]
calf <05695> [calf.]
gods <0430> [These.]
brought ... up <05927> [which brought.]
Aaron ........... Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
proclamation <07121> [made proclamation.]
feast <02282> [a feast.]
offered <05927> [offered.]
sat .... eat <03427 0398> [sat down.]
No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians.
<03212> [Go.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
corruptly <07843> [corrupted.]
They ..... aside <05493> [have turned.]
commanded <06680> [which I.]
gods <0430> [These be.]
Exodus 32:17-20
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 <03091> [Joshua.]
shouted <07452> [they shouted.]
noise ............... sound <06963> [There is a noise.]
overcome <02476> [being overcome. Heb. weakness. but the.]
saw <07200> [he saw.]
dancing <04246> [the dancing.]
angry <0639> [anger.]
broke ....... bottom <07665 08478> [brake them.]
took ... calf <05695 03947> [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 lamin‘, 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.
Israelites <01121> [made the.]
Deuteronomy 9:12-18
Get <06965> [Arise.]
<07843> [corrupted.]
once ................. quickly <04118> [are quickly.]
<07200> [I have.]
stubborn <06203> [stiffnecked.]
Stand <07503> [Let me.]
obliterating <04229> [blot.]
make <06213> [and I will.]
turned <06437> [I turned.]
mountain ... it <02022> [the mount.]
looked <07200> [I looked.]
threw <07993 05921> [cast them.]
Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign.
fell <05307> [I fell down.]
The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses. Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.
Nehemiah 9:18
Psalms 106:19-21
traded <04171> [Thus.]
majestic <03519> [their glory.]
That is, their God, who ought to have been the peculiar object of their glory.
image <08403> [into.]
rejected <07911> [forgat.]
God <0410> [God.]
performed <06213> [which.]
