Exodus 32:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Exodus 32:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In all probability these three chapters originally formed a distinct composition. The main incidents recorded in them follow in the order of time, and are therefore in their proper place as regards...
Exodus 32:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:1-6 E, Exodus 32:7-14 Rje, Exodus 32:15-24 E, Exodus 32:25-29 J, Exodus 32:30-34 E s, Exodus 32:35 E. The Golden Calf. Exodus 32:32-34 stand between the instruc...
Exodus 32:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

a feast to the LORD . All done under cover of "religion". the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Exodus 32:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. And, when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. When he sees the people so infuriated, that he despairs of being able to resist their conspiracy, in perfidious cowardice he gives way...
Exodus 32:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. To-morrow is a feast to the Lord - In Bengal the officiating Brahmin,...
Exodus 32:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When Aaron saw it, &c.— Whatever may be urged in behalf of Aaron, there can be no doubt that his conduct was extremely blameable: nor have we any need to attempt his vindication, as there can b...
Exodus 32:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ... built an altar before it - `like that which still exists...
Exodus 32:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Idolatry of the People 1-6. The historical narrative is here resumed from Exodus 24:18 . Becoming impatient at the prolonged absence of Moses on the mount (forty days, Exodus 24:18 ), and de...
Exodus 32:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Aaron... built an altar before it. — Having once yielded to the popular cry. Aaron was carried on from one compliance to another. He caused the mould to be made for the idol, and the gold to be mel...
Exodus 32:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXXII. THE GOLDEN CALF. Exodus 32:1-35 While God was thus providing for Israel, what had Israel done with God? They had grown weary of waiting: had despaired of and slighted their h...
Exodus 32:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Aaron's Golden Calf Offends the Lord Exodus 32:1-14 The people never thought of taking Aaron as a substitute for Moses, because they instinctively recognized his moral weakness. Though he was d...
Exodus 32:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Immediately following the account of this period of communion between Moses and God we have the record of the sin of the people. When they said, "Up, make us Gods," they were seeking something to rep...
Exodus 32:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Compare this account with what is said, Exodus 24:7 . then read that scripture, which can never be too often read, Jeremiah 17:9 . Observe how the Psalmist remarks this sin, being so highly aggrava...
Exodus 32:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when Aaron saw it ,.... In what form it was, and what a figure it made, and how acceptable it was to the Israelites. The Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase it, "and Aaron saw Hur slai...
Exodus 32:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 5. A feast to Jehovah. ] Whom these idolators pretended to wor...
Exodus 32:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Aaron built an altar Being borne down with the stream; and proclaimed a feast Namely, of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah By which it is still more evident that the people did not...
Exodus 32:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE GOLDEN CALF (vs.1-6) Moses forty days in the mount (the number of testing) was too much for the impatient children of Israel. They gathered to Aaron in united determination to have some subst...
Exodus 32:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Golden Calf. B. C. 1491. 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down o...
Exodus 32:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When Aaron saw , i.e. observed with what applause they received it, and with what fury and resolution they prosecuted their former desire, he was borne down with the stream, and, as it is probable,...
Exodus 32:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The People's Rebellion and the Molten Calf ( Exodus 32:1-6 ). While Moses was in the Mount for forty days and forty nights receiving his instructions from Yahweh, the people waiting in the plain b...
Exodus 32:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 32:1 . Zeh Mosheh häish = this Moses the man ]. The Israelites, thinking that “the man” who brought them out of the land of Egypt had acted the part of a truant, and that...
Exodus 32:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 32:1 . 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 befor...
Exodus 32:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 32:1 . Unto Aaron. Some copies read, the people gathered themselves together against Aaron. He sinned through fear of man; but as the Lord did not punish him with the revolters, the latte...
Exodus 32:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Up, make us gods. Idolatry I. The very essence of idolatry is not spiritual ignorance and obtuseness, but a wilful turning away from the spiritual knowledge and worship of God. 1. This act o...
Exodus 32:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE IDOLATRY OF THE GOLDEN CALF . During the absence of Moses in Mount Sinai, an absence of nearly six weeks, the Israelites grew impatient, and regarding their leader as l...
Exodus 32:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Golden Calf
Exodus 32:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Aaron 1 Samuel 14:35 2 Kings 16:11 Hosea 8:11 Hosea 8:14 made proclamation Leviticus 23:2 Leviticus 23:4 Leviticus 23:21 Leviticus 23:37 1 Kings 21:9 2 Kings 10:20 2 Chronicles 3...
Exodus 32:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And Aaron built an altar before it, and proclaimed a feast — A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for, as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoratio...

Exodus 32:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 32:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 32:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 32:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 32:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 32:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 32:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 32:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 32:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 32:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 32:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes