Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
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Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
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Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 9:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
- Exodus 32:35 Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.
- Hebrews 7:26-28 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
- Exodus 32:2-5 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.” All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whereby he showeth what danger they are in, that…
Whereby he showeth what danger they are in, that have authority and resist not wickedness.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Lord was very angry with Aaron, though he…
The Lord was very angry with Aaron, though he was only accessory, as being persuaded, and in a manner compelled, to comply with your desire.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, to…
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, to have destroyed him,.... For complying with the request of the people in making a calf for them, and for that miserable shift he made to excuse himself; which so provoked the Lord, that he threatened to destroy him, and he was in danger of being cut off, had it not been for the intercession of Moses:
and I prayed for Aaron also the same time: who either was included in the general prayer for the people, Exo 32:31 or a particular prayer was made for him, though not recorded, and which also succeeded.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Israel could not even boast that its heads and…
Israel could not even boast that its heads and representatives continued, faithful. Aaron had been already designated for the high priestly functions; but he fell away with the rest of the people. It was due therefore solely to the grace of God and the intercession of Moses that Aaron himself and his promised priesthood with him were not cut off; just as at a later time, when Aaron had actually to die for a new sin Israel owed it still to the same causes that Eleazar was substituted and the High Priesthood perpetuated (compare Deu 10:6; Num 20:24-26).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The Lord was very angry with Aaron to have…
The Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him--By allowing himself to be overborne by the tide of popular clamor, Aaron became a partaker in the guilt of idolatry and would have suffered the penalty of his sinful compliance, had not the earnest intercession of Moses on his behalf prevailed.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20. I prayed for Aaron also — Not only…
20. I prayed for Aaron also — Not only upon the people, but also upon Aaron, rested the indignation of Jehovah. Moses acts as a mediator for his brother. In the accounts in Exodus 32 there is no special mention of this intercession. Here Moses makes it prominent, not only that he might make the people thoroughly aware that at that time Israel could not even boast of the righteousness of its eminent men, but also to bring out the fact that Aaron’s investiture with the high priesthood and the maintenance of that institution was purely a work of divine grace. — Keil.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. To this there is no reference in Exodus.
20. To this there is no reference in Exodus.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) I prayed for Aaron also.—Jewish commentators ascribe the…
(20) I prayed for Aaron also.—Jewish commentators ascribe the loss of Aaron’s two sons (Lev_10:1-2) partly to God’s anger at this time.
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