Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 24:13
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
13. Joshua ] first mentioned in Exo 17:9.
his minister ] Joshua’s standing title: Exo 33:11, Num 11:28, Jos 1:1.
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.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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 Mosess 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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
13. Moses went up into the mount ofGodHe was called to receive the divine transcript. Joshua wastaken a little higher, and it would be a great comfort for the leaderto have his company during the six days he was in patient waiting forthe call on the seventh or sabbath day.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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,
Ex 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, De 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(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.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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 .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 147:19-20 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
his minister: Exo 17:9-14, Exo 32:17, Exo 33:11, Num 11:28
went up: Exo 24:2
Reciprocal: Exo 19:20 – Moses went up Num 13:8 – Oshea Deu 1:38 – which standeth Jos 1:1 – Moses’ minister 1Ki 19:21 – ministered 2Ki 6:15 – servant 1Ch 7:27 – Jehoshuah Pro 27:18 – so Mar 9:2 – an high Act 13:5 – their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.