Exodus 32:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 32:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Numbers 25:2
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Acts 7:41-42
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. …
Judges 16:23-25
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. …
Exodus 32:17-19
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. …

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Adultery Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Banquet Commandments Concupiscence Convocation Copulation Crime

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

While Moses was in the mount, receiving the law from God, the people had time to meditate upon what had been delivered, and prepare themselves for what was further to be revealed, and forty days was little enough for that work; but, instead of that, there were those among them that were contriving how to break the laws they had already received, and to anticipate those which they were in expectati…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

5-6. Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord--a remarkable circumstance, strongly confirmatory of the view that they had not renounced the worship of Jehovah, but in accordance with Egyptian notions, had formed an image with which they had been familiar, to be the visible symbol of the divine presence. But there seems to have been much of the revelry that marked the fea…