Exodus 32:35

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount,.... The time, according to the Targum of Jonathan, being elapsed, which he had fixed for his descent, and through a…

The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be made manifest whether he loved his own glory better than he loved the brethren who…

The Lord plagued the people - Every time they transgressed afterwards Divine justice seems to have remembered this transgression against them. The Jews have a metaphorical saying, apparently founded…

Moses, having executed justice upon the principal offenders, is here dealing both with the people and with God.

I. With the people, to bring them to repentance, Exo 32:30.

1. When some were slain,…

The verse seems here out of place (so Di.): perhaps it originally formed the sequel to v.20 (We., Bä.). It does not read like a description of the punishment threatened at the end of v.34.

which Aaron…