Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
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Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
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And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
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And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God.
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Passages linked to Exodus 24:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 33:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
- Numbers 11:28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
- Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
- Exodus 17:9-14 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.” So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
- Exodus 32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister…
Exo 24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Ver. 13. And Moses went up.] Joshua stayed the while in some convenient place.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Joshua did not go up with Moses to the…
Joshua did not go up with Moses to the top of the mount, as is sufficiently implied both here and above, Exo 24:1,2; but abode in some lower place, waiting for Moses’s return, as appears from Exo 32:17. And there Joshua abode forty days, not fasting all the while, but having, as the rest had,
manna for his meat, and for his drink, water out of the brook that descended out of the mount, as we read Deu 9:21.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua,.... In…
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua,.... In order to go up higher on the mount. Joshua, and he only, was to go up higher with him, though not to the top of the mount, at least not into the cloud upon it, as Moses did. Joshua was his minister or servant, and waited upon him wherever he went, and was to be his successor; and therefore for his encouragement, and to qualify him the better for it, he was indulged with a sight and knowledge of things others were not; for by his not knowing anything of the idolatry of the golden calf, Exo 32:17 it appears that he was on some part of the mount all the forty days and forty nights; and if it should be asked whether he fasted all that time, or, if he did not, how he was provided with food and drink? it may be replied, that there is no necessity to suppose that he fasted all that time; and it is easy to imagine how he was supplied, for the manna fell round about the mountain, of which he might gather and eat day by day, as Aben Ezra observes; and there was a brook which descended out of the mount, from whence he might have water, Deu 9:21.
and Moses went up into the mount of God; Mount Sinai, where he had formerly appeared to him in a bush, and now had descended on it to give the law, and was still upon it, where his glory was seen; and therefore might, with great propriety, be called the mount of God; to the top of which Moses was preparing to go, but before he went gave the following instructions.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Joshua was his minister or servant, and it would…
Joshua was his minister or servant, and it would be a satisfaction to him to have him with him as a companion during the six days that he tarried in the mount before God called to him. Joshua was to be his successor, and therefore thus he was honoured before the people, and thus he was prepared by being trained up in communion with God. Joshua was a type of Christ, and (as the learned Bishop Peirson well observes Moses takes him with him into the mount, because without Jesus, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, there is no looking into the secrets of heaven, nor approaching the presence of God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. Moses rose up] In Ex 24:16 it…
Verse 13. Moses rose up] In Ex 24:16 it is said that the glory of the Lord abode on the mount, and the cloud covered it. The glory was probably above the cloud, and it was to the cloud that Moses and his servant Joshua ascended at this time, leaving Aaron and the elders below. After they had been in this region, viz., where the cloud encompassed the mountain, for six days, God appears to have called Moses up higher: compare verses Ex 24:16 and Ex 24:18. Moses then ascended to the glory, leaving Joshua in the cloud, with whom he had, no doubt, frequent conferences during the forty days he continued with God on the mount.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 24:13. Joshua was his minister or servant, and…
Exo 24:13. Joshua was his minister or servant, and it would be a satisfaction to him to have him as a companion during the six days that he tarried in the mount before God called to him. Joshua was to be his successor, and therefore thus he was honoured before the people, and thus he was prepared by being trained up in communion with God. Joshua was a type of Christ, and (as the learned Bishop Pearson well observes) Moses takes him with him unto the mount, because without Jesus, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, there is no looking into the secrets of heaven, nor approaching the presence of God.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Moses went up into the mount of God--He was…
Moses went up into the mount of God--He was called to receive the divine transcript. Joshua was taken a little higher, and it would be a great comfort for the leader to have his company during the six days he was in patient waiting for the call on the seventh or sabbath day.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. His minister Joshua — This intimate companion of…
13. His minister Joshua — This intimate companion of the great lawgiver, destined to be his successor, was admitted into holiest relations with him. See notes on Exo_17:9, and Jos_1:1, and comp. Exo_32:17; Exo_33:11. Whether he went with Moses “into the midst of the cloud,” (Exo_24:18,) we are not expressly told, but that is the legitimate inference.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. Joshua] first mentioned in Exo_17:9.
13. Joshua] first mentioned in Exo_17:9.
his minister] Joshua’s standing title: Exo_33:11, Num_11:28, Jos_1:1.
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and Moses went up, &c.] leaving Joshua on the lower part of the mountain; cf. Exo_32:17, with the note.
the mount of God] See on Exo_3:1.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.—The close…
(13) Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.—The close connection of Joshua with Moses is here, for the first time, indicated. His employment as a general against Amalek (Exo_17:9-13) might have simply marked his military capacity; but from this point in the history it becomes apparent that he was Moses’ most trusted friend and assistant in all matters where there was need of confidential relations between the leader and his subordinates, and thus that he was to be his successor (see Exo_32:17; Exo_33:11; Num_13:8; Num_13:16; Num_27:18-23; Deu_34:9), since no other person stood in any such close association.
Moses went up into the mount of God.—Ascended, i.e., to the highest point of the mountain, whereof mention has been previously made; not, probably, to the Jebel Musa, but to the highest summit of the Ras Sufsafeh, upon which the cloud rested.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Moses went up. Prompt to obey, Moses, though he…
Moses went up. Prompt to obey, Moses, though he had only just descended from the mount, immediately made ready to set forth and again ascend it. This time he was attended by his minister, Joshua, whose arm he had employed on a former occasion against the Amalekites. (Exo_17:9-13) The name, Joshua, is, however, still given him by anticipation, since he did not receive it until he was sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. (Num_13:8, Num_13:16)
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