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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/32-7.htm" title="Exodus 32:7">◄</a> Exodus 32:8 <a href="../exodus/32-9.htm" title="Exodus 32:9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These <i>be</i> thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/32.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/exodus/32.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/exodus/32.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/exodus/32.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a 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molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.">Exodus 32:4</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/exodus/32.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/exodus/32-8.htm" title="They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.">Exodus 32:8</a></span>. <span class="ital">They have turned aside quickly — </span>Quickly after the law was given them, and they had promised to obey it; quickly after God had done such great things for them, and declared his kind intentions to do greater.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/exodus/32.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>32:7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. They had turned aside out of the way. Sin is a departing from the way of duty into a by-path. They soon forgot God's works. He sees what they cannot discover, nor is any wickedness of the world hid from him. We could not bear to see the thousandth part of that evil which God sees every day. God expresses the greatness of his just displeasure, after the manner of men who would have prayer of Moses could save them from ruin; thus he was a type of Christ, by whose mediation alone, God would reconcile the world to himself. Moses pleads God's glory. The glorifying God's name, as it ought to be our first petition, and it is so in the Lord's prayer, so it ought to be our great plea. And God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer; for what he has promised he is able to perform. See the power of prayer. In answer to the prayers of Moses, God showed his purpose of sparing the people, as he had before seemed determined on their destruction; which change of the outward discovery of his purpose, is called repenting of the evil.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/32.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>These be thy gods ... have brought - This is thy god, O Israel, who has brought ...<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/exodus/32.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>7-14. the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down—Intelligence of the idolatrous scene enacted at the foot of the mount was communicated to Moses in language borrowed from human passions and feelings, and the judgment of a justly offended God was pronounced in terms of just indignation against the gross violation of the so recently promulgated laws.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/exodus/32.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/exodus/32.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation,"on Sinai, saying, ye shall not make to yourselves an image, or figure, or any similitude.''This was the command God had given to them; this the way he had directed them to walk in; from this they turned aside, by making the golden calf as an image or representation of God; and this they had done very quickly, since it was but about six weeks ago that this command was given; wherefore if Moses had delayed coming down from the mount, they had made haste to commit iniquity; and, perhaps, this observation is made of their quick defection, in opposition to their complaint of Moses's long absence: <p>they have made them a molten calf; for though it was made by Aaron, or by his direction to the founder or goldsmith, yet it was at their request and earnest solicitation; they would not be easy without it: <p>and have worshipped it; by bowing the knee to it, kissing it or their hands at the approach of it, see <a href="/hosea/13-2.htm">Hosea 13:2</a>. <p>and have sacrificed thereunto burnt offerings and peace offerings: <p>and said, these be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt; the very words they used, <a href="/exodus/32-4.htm">Exodus 32:4</a> and which were taken particular notice of by the Lord with resentment. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/exodus/32.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">They <span class="cverse3">{e}</span> have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These <i>be</i> thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</span><p>(e) By which we see the need we have to pray earnestly to God, to keep us in his true obedience, and to send us good guides.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/exodus/32.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8</span>. <span class="ital">the way</span>, &c.] See <a href="/exodus/20-4.htm" title="You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.">Exodus 20:4</a>; <a href="/exodus/20-23.htm" title="You shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall you make to you gods of gold.">Exodus 20:23</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/32.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They have turned aside quickly</span>. A few weeks have sufficed to make them forget their solemn pledges (<a href="/exodus/19-8.htm">Exodus 19:8</a>; <a href="/exodus/24-3.htm">Exodus 24:3</a>), and fly in the face of a plain unmistakable commandment. A molten calf. In the contemptuous language of Holy Scripture when speaking of idols, such an emblematic figure as the Babylonion man-bull would be a mere "calf." That the figure made by Aaron is called always "a molten calf" - literally, "a calf of fusion" - disposes of the theory of Keil, that it was of carved wood covered with gold plates hammered on to it. <span class="cmt_word">These be thy gods,</span> <span class="cmt_word">which have brought thee.</span> Rather, "This is thy god, which has brought thee." The plural must be regarded as merely one of dignity. Exodus 32:8<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/exodus/32.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>"They have turned aside quickly (lit., hurriedly):" this had increased their guilt, and made their ingratitude to Jehovah, their Redeemer, all the more glaring.<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/exodus/32-8.htm">Exodus 32:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../exodus/32-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 32:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 32:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/32-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 32:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 32:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>