Exodus 34:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Hew thee two tables of stone, &c.— See Exodus 34:28. God being reconciled through Moses's intercession, the covenant is renewed.

REFLECTIONS.—1. Moses is commanded to hew new tables for God to write upon, instead of those which were broken. Note; (1.) Wherever God through Christ is reconciled to a soul, there he will anew engrave on the heart the law which sin had utterly defaced. We shall be under a dangerous delusion, if we promise ourselves peace with God, and live in the allowed transgression of his commandments. (2.) Whatever pains ministers may take to hew the table of the heart, it is God alone that can write his law there.

2. He goes up without delay into the mount of God, while the people with fear and trembling stand at a distance, and are left to lament for a season their late rebellion against God. Note; (1.) We can never be in too great haste to make up the breaches between God and our souls. (2.) Though God forgive our sins, we ought not to forget them.

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Exodus 34:1-4

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.