the day thou didfſt depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious againſt the LORD.
8 Alſo * in Horeb &, ye provoked the LORD to
wrath, ſo that the LORD was angry with you, to have deſtroyed you.
k When your miraculous deliverance out of Egypt was freſh' in memory ; when God had but newly manifeſted himfelf ro you in ſo ſtupendious and dreadful a manner, and had taken you into cove-
.. : nant with himſelf, when God was actually conferring further mer-
* Exod: 24: 12:1 F: * Exod. 24: 18; & 34: 28;
* Exod. 31.18.
* Exod: 19: 17, & 29. 1,
Cies upon YOu. : ;
9 * When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of ſtone, ever the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then * Iabode in the mount fourty days and fourty nights ; I neither did cat bread nor drink water /.
1 ( i.e ) I wholly abftained from all meat and drink. ; Compare x' Kings 13. 8,9, 13. 2 Kings 6. 22.
10 * And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of ſtone, written with the finger of GOD mz, and on them 24s written according to all the words which the LORD ſpake with you in the mount, out of the midſt of the fire, * in the day of the afſembly ».
m Immediatly and miraculouſly, which was dene not only to procure the greater revereuce fo the L1w, buralfo t:: ſignifie, thatic was the work of God alone to write this Law upen't he Tables of mens hearts. See Jer. 31. 33. 2 Cor.3.3, 7. n(7i.e.) W:-:n tie people were gathered by Gods command to the bottom of Mount Sinai to hear and receive Gods Ten Commandments from his own mouth,
11 Andit came to paſs at the end of fourty days, and
| fourty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of
*Ex.32.3.
ſtone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 Andthe LORD faid unto me, * Ariſe, get thee down _ from hence ; for thy people which thou haſt brought forth out of Egypc,have corrupted themſelves: they are quickly turned atide out oftiie way which com- manded them ; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore, the LORD ſpakeunto me, ſaying,
| T have ſeen this people, and behold, it zs a ſtiff: necked
* Fxad.
people.
14 Let mealones, that Imay deſtroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven ; and I will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they,
o Stop not the courſe of my fury by thy interceſſion.
IF. So1 turned and came down frem the mount, and the mount burned with fire : and the two tables of the covenant ere in my two hands.
16 And * I looked, and behold, ye had ſinned, againft the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aſide quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And1I took the two tables, and caſt them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes p.
þ Nor by any unbrid!ed paſſion, but in zeal for Gods honour, and by the dire&:on of Gods tpirit, to ſignific co the pcople, rbar the covenant between God and them coitained in tivie Tables was broken and made void, and taey were now quite caſt out of Gods
favour, and could expe noching from him bur fiery indignation and ſevere juſtice. See on Exod. 32, 19.
18 And *Ifcli down q before the LORD, as at the firſt fourty days, and fourrty nights ; 1 did neither eat | bread; nor drink water, becauſe of ill your fins, which ye ſinned, in doing wickedly inthe ſighc of che LORD, to provoke him to anger. q In way of humiliation aad ſupplication, on your behalf.
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Jacob : look not unto the ſtubbornneſs of this people,
by thy ſtretched ont arm.
puvlick'y owned them for thine, and haſt purchaſed 8ni rede
Chap. X.
19 (ForTwas afraid of the anger and hot diſpleaſure wherewith the LORD was wroth againſt you, to deſtroy '_ you ) But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time
0.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron r, to have deſtroyed him: And I prayed for Aaron alſo the ſame time. |
7 Though he was only acceilary, as being perſwaded, and in a manner cempelled to comply with your deſice. '
21 And * I took your ſin s, the calf which ye had « gyoq. made, and burnt it with fire, and ſtamped it, a»d ground 32. 20. it very ſmall, ever until it was as ſmall as duft : and IT
caſt the duſt thereof into the brook t that deſcended out
of the mount.
5 (i.e.) The obje& and matter of ycur ſin, as in is taken 1s. 31. 7.
t That there might be no monument of remembraace of it leff. - | 22 And at * Taberah, and at* Mafla, and at * Ki- Numb. broth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. ho 23 Likewiſe * when the LORD ſent you from Kadeſh- +7. 7. barnea, ſaying, Go up, and poſleſs the land which I * Numb. have given you, then ye rebelled againſt the command- 17.3% ' ment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him ,, ny not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24. Ye have been rebellious againſt the LORD, from
the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD fourty days
and fourty nights «, as I fell down * as the firſt, becauſe *Verſe 18: the LORD had ſaid, he would deſtroy you. OA 4 The ſame mentioned before, v. 18. as appears, r. By COmpa= ring this with Exodus, where this Hiſtory is more fully relared, and where this is ſaid to be done twice only. 2. By the occsſion and > mat:er of Mes his prayer here following, which is the ſame with : tne former, 3. By the words here followiug, as I fell down at firſt, which ſhew that this was the ſecond time of his 1o doing.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD and ſaid, 2 O LORD God, deftroy not thy people, and thine
inheritance, which thou haſt redeemed through thy $ greatneſs x, which thou haft brought forth our of Egype I with a mighty hand. . 2
x (i.e, ) Through the greatneſs of thy power, which appeared moſt eminently in that work, as is noted, v. 29. Fe We: Ne
27 Remember thy Servants y, Abraham, Iſaac, and
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nor to their wickedneſs, nor to their ſin.
y (#.e. } The promiſe made and ſworn to thy Servants, which was mentioned above, wv 5
28 Leſt the land whence thou broughteſt us out; ſay, * Becauſe the LORD was not able tobring them into the * Numb: land which he promiſed them,and becauſe he hated chem, 14: 6
he hath hrought them out to ſlay themin the wilderneſs. 29 Yet they «rechy people z, and thine inheritance which thou broughtett out by thy mighty power, and
z Whom thou haſt choten to thy felf out ofall mankind; an