Similarly, the work of nadabs and abihus hands included offering profane fire leviticus 10. This cult worship of the moon god, sin, as the golden calf or moloch, or the triune god of which the trinity is the modern derivation, is the most evil form of human barbarity, and god condemns it and its system. The episode concerning aaron and the golden calf see exodus 3234 comes as quite a shock. The attentive reader has seen enough in this chapter to induce him to exclaim, how soon a clear sky may be overcast. Forgetting god doesnt always mean creating a golden calf to worship.
Golden calf of exodus and the tie to revelation 17 blogger. Golden calf scripture do not make statues of gods that look like anything in the sky or on the earth or in the waters. Then moses returned to the lord and said, oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold. Mar 16, 2018 the bible story of the golden calf is very revealing of human nature and the tendency of people to stray away from devotion to god. In verse 17, and when joshua heard the noise of the people. Exodus 32, new international version niv the bible app. Book of exodus, session 8 the golden calf exodus 32 34. The former contains references to animal sacrifices, levites, priestly rites of purification andablution, concerns about seeing god and dying, and most notably, a reference to.
Yet now, if you will forgive their sinbut if not, i pray, blot me out of your book which you have written. Golden calf, idol worshipped by the hebrews during the period of the exodus from egypt in the. A man wrote in an email that he did not care whether the bible said not to worship as the pagans do through the use of christmas and easter. While moses was chatting up god on the mountain for forty days, the people were getting antsy. This paper has been written by me in the course of my theological studies at european nazarene college nc. Aaron told them to take off their gold rings from their ears. The story of the golden calf, the greatest scandal of the wilderness period, is recalled in deuteronomy 9.
A new heart i will give you, and a new spirit i will put within you. God is about to speak the ten commandments to all the people. The children of israel had been in bondage in egypt for over two hundred years. Sometimes forgetting god means thinking we dont need.
The whole question of remaining in the book of life is one of obedience and the willing selfrevelation of god, on obedience. The golden calf when the people saw that moses was so long in coming down. It sounds like an open and shut case of the very idolatry god tells them not to do in the ten commandments, and in many ways it was. The golden calf a new church bible story explanation for teaching sunday school. Exodus 32 new international version niv the golden calf. Even its position in the scripture record adds to the sense of disbelief as the narrative could be entirely removed without disturbing the flow, with exodus 31 merging almost seamlessly into exodus chapter 35. Deuteronomy with book summary versebyverse bible commentary. The golden calf of israel and the true and false worship today. The golden calf 6970 when moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people went to aaron and said to him, come, make gods for us. The old testemant book of exodus chapter 20 verse 2o has the ten commandments. A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. Fun for kids to print and test their knowledge of the exodus, moses, aaron, mount sinai, and the israelites. The latter was a good exercise in humiliation, and for some of the israelites with rheumatoid arthritis, drinking this gold was certainly therapeutic.
He then seized the golden calf, burned it, ground it into powder, mixed the powder with water and forced the israelites to drink this mixture exodus 32. This bible commentary is indepth but uses plain english that everyone can understand. The craftsmen that came out of egypt were used to working with gold and therefore copper was added to give the calf strength. If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are. Exodus 32 commentary commentary critical and explanatory on. The russian channel one aired an eightpart tv series the golden calf 2006 starring oleg menshikov as bender. Jan 12, 2015 commentary on exodus 32 golden calf january 12, 2015 bill pratt leave a comment as chapter 32 begins, moses has been up on mount sinai for weeks 40 days receiving instructions from god. The golden figurine of the calf did not bring them out of egypt, but the lord did. The golden calf brings back confidence man ostap bender from the twelve chairs, once again with ambitions for the great haul. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as dan.
Exodus chapter 34 verse 3 the golden calf as polemical allegory. Oct 29, 2019 moses then burned up the golden calf with fire, ground it into powder, and poured the powder into the drinking water and made the israelites drink it. A literary structural analysis of the goldencalf episode. In other words, aaron used the peoples gold money, wealth to build a golden calf, rather than to establish the rightful rule of jesus christ and his government on earth. Exodus 32 verse by verse commentary and bible study of exodus chapter 32. Irene is married to krister who is a chef in a high end restaurant. The golden calf sunday school lesson exodus 32 ministry. This analysis does not purport to deal exhaustively with the manifold exegetical. Remembering the second law and urging to obedience. Now when the people saw that moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to aaron, and said to him, come, make us gods that shall go before us.
But tonight we are looking at exodus 32 and this is the chapter in which aaron and the children of israel built their golden calf because moses has been on the mount with the lord for so long. The 2009 translation into english, the little golden calf by annie o. The chapter ends with a plague being cursed upon the israelites for the golden calf as they embark towards canaan. Jul 22, 2016 in this study, we are going to study the golden calf exod.
But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiffnecked, and they did not obey your commands. When you worship another god other than the one true god, then god burned with anger and sworn to visit their sin upon them. You may use this text as a part of your work provided that you give credits to its author petar neychev. Idolatry and the golden calf groundwork bible study.
Simply rightclick the image and save to your computer. Includes lesson materials for primary 38 years, junior 911 years, intermediate 1214. Chapter and verse definition and meaning collins english. The meaning of the golden calf israel institute of. The curse began with the woman in the garden of eden when she went. He is not your typical soviet hero indeed, the book is full of those critical of and with antipathy to the soviet experiment. Moses did just sort of wander off into the desert, claiming he knew where he was going.
No matter how he tried to pass it off, he deliberately fashioned an idol out of gold, something he had to work at. Levi stood with moses to clean house after the golden calf ex 32. As for this fellow moses who brought us up out of egypt, we dont know what has happened to him. The first vengeance which moses took was upon the idol. After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, going to jerusalem is too much for you. And god spoke all these words, saying, i am the lord your god, who brought you out of the land of egypt, out of the house of slavery. Commentary on exodus 32 golden calf tough questions answered. God called moses, the deliverer, and told him that he had heard their cries and was about to deliver them exodus 3. The golden calf when israel worshipped the golden calf at the base of the mount, it was offensive enough that god expressed a willingness to destroy the entire nation and start over with moses. Many scholars, traditional and academic, believe the sin of the golden calf was the worship of another god, the first commandment in the decalogue, but what aaron actually claims about the calf points to a different collection of laws. What book and chapter records the ten commandments answers. Aaron takes their gold earrings and forms it into the shape of a calf, or a bull. Israels works nearly condemned the nation to obliteration. Therefore the men who worshiped the calf was very very few.
A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators. Book of exodus, session 8 the golden calf exodus 3234 with moses on top of the mountain for forty days and forty nights to receive the inscribed tablets of the ten commandments and the instructions for the building of the tabernacle, the israelites get restless. What should we learn from the golden calf incident in exodus. Exodus chapter 32 kjv king james version god must have been talking about the golden calf idolatry. The bible story of the golden calf is very revealing of human nature and the tendency of people to stray away from devotion to god. Read the full story of the golden calf in scripture text below and find articles, videos and audio sermons relating to this inspiring story. Exodus chapter 32 verse 1 aaron made a single golden calf, and presented it to the people saying, here are your gods plural, who brought you up from egypt, exodus chapter 32 verse 4 the exact words ascribed to jeroboam in the book of kings. Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples log in dictionary. Exodus 32 niv the golden calf when the people saw bible.
The golden calf if 600,000men left egypt only 3000 were punished. The story of the golden calf is widely regarded as one of the most disgraceful moments in jewish history. The levitical priesthood did not exist until after the golden calf episode. At the foot of mount sinai the israelites lose faith in moses and ask aaron to fashion a golden calf. Sep 12, 2007 theology papers the golden calf of israel and the true and false worship today. The golden calf ilya ilf, evgeny petrov, konstantin gurevich, helen anderson on. Exodus chapter 32 kjv king james version 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 before us. Exodus 3234 niv the golden calf when the people saw bible. The incident of the worship of the golden calf is narrated in the second chapter of the quran, named the heifer, and other islamic literature. The story of the the golden calf, moses, and the ten. Wherefore should the egyptians say, ra brought them out to slay them in the mountains. Helene turstens the golden calf is the fifth book in this swedish series of crime novels, inspector irene huss.
Now this familiar chapter stands out for two lessons, one of them practical and one typical. There is not one single, universally accepted version of the 10 commandments. What should we learn from the golden calf incident in. Images of bulls and calves were common in near eastern religions. The golden calf what does this story mean and how does it apply to my life.
It was probably hollow, and possibly of no great size. He aaron took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. And they said, these are your gods, o israel, who brought you up out of the land of egypt. So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, it is too much for you to go up to jerusalem. That is 5% of the total or out of 100 men only 5 died.
Exodus 32 is among the unhappiest chapters in the bible as the people of israel fall down in a kind of wild orgy of false worship in front of a golden statue of a calf. And i answered again, and said unto him, what be these two olive branches which through the two. All kjv books old testament only new testament only apocrypha only. The golden calf story is an alternate tradition, and thematerial in exodus chapter 24 is contradictory. The first two chapters of 1 kings complete the story of david, begun in the. So they gave it to me, and i threw it into the fire, and out came this calf verse 24.
And the lord said to moses, whoever has sinned against me, i will blot him out of my book. The story of the golden calf is found in exodus 32. Exodus 32 new international version niv the golden calf 32 when the people saw that moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around aaron and said, come, make us gods a who will go before us. Exodus 32 isv aaron makes the golden calf bible gateway. Exodus 32 international standard version isv aaron makes the golden calf. Although some of this law of moses was made to teach them more perfectly the ways of yahweh, some was intended to simply slow or prevent their further backsliding jer 7. Most of the reason for this is that although the number of commandments is said to be 10, there are actually about 14 or 15 instructions, so division into the 10 differs from one religious group to the next.
In what book, chapter, and verse is the famous passage i will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols i will cleanse you. What should we learn from the golden calf incident in exodus 32. If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it. In exodus, chapters 32, the a mere 40 days after receiving the torah, the jewish people created an idol torah tells how three months after leaving egypt, and a mere 40 days after receiving the torah at mount sinai, the jewish people created an idol and. One of the seventy elders on mount sinai was joshua. No affliction has ever happened to israel in which there was not some particle of the dust of the golden calf. They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. Fisher published by russian life books was the first unabridged, uncensored translation into english of the novel. In particular, the golden calf was a work of aarons hands exodus 32. The jews have a metaphorical saying, apparently founded on this text. Nevertheless, god and moses were highly offended because, to them, making the golden calf was an israelite attempt to define gods nature and to control him according to their desires.
The golden calf and everything israel did was from the beginning of the curse. Hendrix institute of archaeology berrien springs, michigan 49104 the following is a literary structural analysis of the golden calf episode as found in the mt of exod 32. This alone should make us realize just how serious it is to cast god out of his position as king over all nations. It is noteworthy that in exodus 32, the chapter on the golden calf, the letters ra appear in no less than seven words. Books of kings, two books of the hebrew bible or the protestant old. He might easily break it to pieces and subject the pieces to the action of fire, whereby they would be calcined, and might then be easily reduced to powder. Bible verses about golden calf church of the great god. It is ironic that while moses was on mount sinai, receiving the ten commandments from god, the israelites were breaking the very first commandment thou shall not have any gods before me.
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