Exo 32:1, 8, 23, 34:17, Lev 19:4, 26:1, Deu 4:15-19, 23-25, 5:8, 27:15 | TSK | STEP | The people, in the absence of Moses, cause Aaron to make a calf. God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails. Moses comes down with the tables. He breaks them. He destroys the calf. Aaron's excuse for himself. Moses causes the idolaters to be slain. He prays for the people. A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Ab. delayed. Up. make. which shall. the man. we wot.

23; Isa 40:18; Joh 4:24; Ac 17:29; 20:4,5; 1Ti 1:17 In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Ex 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered.

Ro 1:23

when thou.

17:3; 2Ki 23:4,5,11; Job 31:26,27; Jer 8:2; Eze 8:16; Am 5:25,26

the host.

Ge 2:1; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42; Ro 1:25

which the Lord.

Ge 1:16-18; Jos 10:12,13; Ne 9:6; Ps 74:16,17; 136:7-9; 148:3-5

Jer 31:35; 33:25; Mt 5:45

divided. or, imparted.

Deuteronomy 4:23-25

heed.

9,15,16; 27:9; Jos 23:11; Mt 24:4; Lu 12:15; 21:8; Heb 3:12

lest ye forget.

6:12; 29:25; 31:20; Jos 23:16; 1Ch 16:15; Isa 24:5; Jer 31:22

Eze 16:59

make you.

16; Ex 20:4,5

thy God.

9:3; 32:22; Ex 24:17; Ps 21:9; Isa 30:33; 33:14; Jer 21:12-14

Na 1:6; Zep 1:18; Heb 12:29

a jealous God.

6:15; 29:20; 32:16,21; Ex 20:5; 34:14; Ps 78:58; Isa 42:8; Na 1:2

Zep 3:8; 1Co 10:22

beget.

31:16-18; Jud 2:8-15

corrupt. See on ver.

16; 31:29; Ex 32:7; Ho 9:9

do evil.

2Ki 17:17-19; 21:2,14-16; 2Ch 36:12-16; 1Co 10:22

Deuteronomy 5:8

graven image.

4:15-19; Ex 20:4

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be.

28:16-19; Ge 9:25; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 11:3

maketh.

4:16-23; 5:8; Ex 20:4,23; 32:1-4; 34:17; Le 19:4; 26:1

Isa 44:9,10,17; Ho 13:2,3

an abomination.

29:17; 1Ki 11:5-7; 2Ki 23:13; 2Ch 33:2; Isa 44:19; Eze 7:20

Da 11:31; Mt 24:15; Re 17:4,5

and putteth.

Ge 31:19,34; 2Ki 17:19; Ps 44:20,21; Jer 23:24; Eze 8:7-12; 14:4

And all.

Nu 5:22; Jer 11:5; 28:6; Mt 6:13; 1Co 14:16

Amen.To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.