Exodus 32:22
in Exodus 32“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
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ASV
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.
KJV
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
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This verse in Exodus 32
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot--Aaron cuts a poor figure, making a shuffling excuse and betraying more dread of the anger of Moses than of the Lord (compare De 9:20).
This site's exposition
What did this people unto thee
on Exodus 32:21-22
Moses puts the question to Aaron as a matter of what the people did to him, which offers Aaron the position of a man acted upon. Aaron takes it, saying the people are set on mischief, and Adam Clarke reads the reply as an excuse rather than an account. Deuteronomy 9:20 supplies what this chapter leaves out, that the LORD was angry with Aaron enough to destroy him and that Moses prayed for Aaron also.
This site's exposition
the people are intent on evil
Aaron answers Moses by blaming the people, as Adam and Eve each passed the blame at Genesis 3:12 and 13, Matthew Henry notes. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown find in Aaron more dread of the anger of Moses than of the LORD. He was the elder brother, by 7:7.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And Aaron said, let not the anger of my lord wax hot,....
(2.) He lays all the fault upon the people: They are set on mischief, and they said, Make us gods. It is natural to us to endeavour thus to transfer our guilt; we have it in our kind, Adam and Eve did so; sin is a brat that nobody is willing to own.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou knowest the people - He excuses himself by the wicked and seditious spirit of the people, intimating that he was obliged to accede to their desires.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אַהֲרֹ֔ן | ʾaharon | Aaron | H175 → | 347 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| יִ֥חַר | yichar | it burn | H2734 → | 91 times |
| אַ֖ף | ʾaf | [the] anger of | H639 → | 276 times |
| אֲדֹנִ֑י | ʾadoni | lord my | H113 → | 333 times |
| אַתָּה֙ | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| יָדַ֣עְתָּ | yada'ta | you know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָעָ֔ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| בְרָ֖ע | vera' | [is] on evil | H7451 → | 662 times |
| הֽוּא׃ | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
אַהֲרֹ֔ןAaron
ʾaharonH175 →347 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
יִ֥חַרit burn
yicharH2734 →91 times
אַ֖ף[the] anger of
ʾafH639 →276 times
אֲדֹנִ֑יlord my
ʾadoniH113 →333 times
אַתָּה֙you
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
יָדַ֣עְתָּyou know
yada'taH3045 →945 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הָעָ֔םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
כִּ֥יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
בְרָ֖ע[is] on evil
vera'H7451 →662 times
הֽוּא׃it
hu'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
it leads to
- Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 36:4
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
- Micah 2:1
Through
Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
it leads to
- Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Isaiah 65:2
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- Proverbs 4:16
Through
1 Samuel 15:24Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 12:13
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- Isaiah 51:12–13
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- 2 Samuel 12:13
Through
Deuteronomy 9:24You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- Deuteronomy 31:27
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.