Exodus 34:8
in Exodus 34Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
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ASV
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
KJV
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
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This verse in Exodus 34
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.
This site's exposition
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head
on Exodus 34:8-9
Moses hears mercy proclaimed and asks at once for the thing he has been asking since chapter 32, that God go among the people. His ground is the very sentence God had used to explain his distance, that they are a stiffnecked people, at Exodus 32:9 and 33:3 and 33:5. He takes the reason for judgment and makes it the reason for mercy, which is the shape Derek Prince and Dutch Sheets both point to when they teach intercession as standing in the gap.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head - Thus he expressed his humble reverence and adoration of God's glory, together with his joy in this discovery God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it.
And Moses made haste,....
(2.) His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. We have reason gratefully to acknowledge God's goodness to us, not only in the real instances of it, but in the declarations he has made of it by his word; not only that he is, and will be, gracious to us, but that he is pleased to let us know it.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְמַהֵ֖ר | vaymaher | and he hurried | H4116 → | 68 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֑ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| וַיִּקֹּ֥ד | vaiyikod | and he bowed low | H6915 → | 15 times |
| אַ֖רְצָה | ʾartzah | [the] ground towards | H776 → | 2504 times |
| וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ׃ | vaiyishtachu | and he bowed down | H7812 → | 172 times |
וַיְמַהֵ֖רand he hurried
vaymaherH4116 →68 times
מֹשֶׁ֑הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
וַיִּקֹּ֥דand he bowed low
vaiyikodH6915 →15 times
אַ֖רְצָה[the] ground towards
ʾartzahH776 →2504 times
וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ׃and he bowed down
vaiyishtachuH7812 →172 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
2 Chronicles 20:18Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.
it leads to
- Exodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 7:3
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and…
- Job 1:20
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
- Genesis 24:26
Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,
- Exodus 4:31
Through
Exodus 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
it leads to
- Exodus 3:18
The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with…
- Exodus 12:27
you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the…
- Exodus 2:25
God saw the Israelites and took notice.
- Psalms 106:12–13
Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
- Exodus 3:18
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
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This page draws on Derek Prince, Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting; Dutch Sheets, Intercessory Prayer; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.