Exodus 32

Treated in 14 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 32:10 So now let me alone, so that my wrath can burn hot against them and I can put an end to them. Then I will make you into a great nation." 3
  • 32:4 He took the gold from them, shaped it with an engraving tool, and made it into a calf of cast metal. Then they said, "Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!" 2
  • 32:7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly. 2
  • 32:32 But now, if only you would forgive their sin! But if not, then blot me out of your book that you have written." 2
  • 32:6 They were up early the next morning, offering burnt offerings and bringing fellowship offerings. Then the people sat down to a meal of food and drink, and rose up to revel. 1
  • 32:14 And the LORD relented from the harm he had said he would do to his people. 1
  • 32:20 He took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, and crushed it until it was fine dust. Then he scattered the dust over the water and made the Israelites drink it. 1
  • 32:26 Moses took his stand at the gate of the camp and called out, "Who is on the LORD's side? Come here to me!" And all the Levites rallied around him. 1
  • 32:31 So Moses went back to the LORD and said, "Oh, hear me! This people has committed a terrible sin. They have made themselves gods out of gold. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Priestly Office cites Exod 32:10

    …of a saint be so prevalent with God, as Moses’ prayer bound God’s hand, ‘Let me alone,’ Exod 32:10; and Jacob, as a prince, prevailed with God, Gen 32:28; and Elijah by prayer opened and…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Exod 32: 7

    …Hos 2: 2. ‘Thy people have corrupted themselves;’ no more my people, but thy people. Exod 32: 7. God calls idolatry, blasphemy. ‘In this your fathers have blasphemed me.’ Idolatry is…

  3. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Prayer cites Exod. xxxii. 10

    …saying of God to Moses, when Moses was about to intercede for the children of Israel. (Exod. xxxii. 10.) The Chaldee version has it "Leave off praying." So long as Abraham asked mercy for…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Exod 32: 7

    …golden calf, God disclaimed his interest in them. ‘Thy people have corrupted themselves.’ Exod 32: 7. Before, God called Israel his people; but when they went after other gods, ‘Now,’ saith…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Prefatory Address to King Francis cites Exod. 32:4

    …already set apart to the priesthood, erred notwithstanding when they made the calf (Exod. 32:4). Why, according to this view, should not the four hundred prophets who lied to Ahab…

  6. The Key Teachings of E. M. Bounds · Ochorus Originals

    The Hand That Moves the World cites EXODUS 32:14

    …2 KINGS 20:5 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. EXODUS 32:14 A chapter of Purpose in Prayer even carries the title Prayer Changes the Purpose of God.…

  7. The Key Teachings of E. M. Bounds · Ochorus Originals

    Behold, He Prayeth cites EXODUS 32:32

    …their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. EXODUS 32:32 Samuel was the child of his mother’s prayers and became a man of prayer himself, who…

  8. Portraits of Courage – Samuel Ajayi Crowther · Ochorus Originals

    A Bishop in a Canoe cites Exodus 32:20

    …the event to Moses grinding the golden calf to powder and making the Israelites drink it (Exodus 32:20). It was a dramatic public change. It did not mean that the people of Bonny had become…

  9. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    December cites Exo 32:26

    …and graciously walk with us. AMEN. December 11 TAKING SIDES “Who is on the Lord's side!”— Exo 32:26. “How long halt ye between two opinions! If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal…

  10. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Exod 32: 10

    …prayer as with a golden chain. ‘Let me alone;’ why, what did Moses? he only prayed. Exod 32: 10. Prayer ushers in mercy. Be thy case never so sad, if thou canst but pray thou needest…

  11. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse 2 cites Exod. 32:31

    …wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me out of the book which thou hast written;” (Exod. 32:31, 32) — or, with St. Paul, “I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my…

  12. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 20 — Of Prayer cites Exod. 32:32

    …zeal long for death, if by their loss the kingdom and glory of God might be promoted (Exod. 32:32; Rom. 9:3). On the other hand, when we ask for daily bread, although we desire what is…

  13. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    The Sabbath cites Exod. xxxii. 6

    …the worshippers of the golden calf, who “sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” (Exod. xxxii. 6.) It is to be emphatically a holy rest. It is to be a rest in which, as far as possible…

  14. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Idolatry cites Exodus xxxii. 4

    …And the feast in honour of the calf was kept as “a feast unto the Lord” (Jehovah). (Exodus xxxii. 4, 5.) Jeroboam, again, never pretended to ask the ten tribes to cast off their allegiance…