Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
21. Characteristically expanded, with variations, from Exo 32:20: one item in the latter, and made the children of Israel drink of it, is omitted.
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Verse 21. I took your sin, the calf which ye had made] See this fully explained, Clarke “Ex 32:20“.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Your sin, i.e. the object and matter of your sin, as sin is taken Isa 31:7.
I cast the dust thereof into the brook, that there might be no monument or remembrance of it left.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. I cast the dust thereof into thebrook that descended out of the mountthat is, “thesmitten rock” (El Leja) which was probably contiguous to, or apart of, Sinai. It is too seldom borne in mind that though theIsraelites were supplied with water from this rock when they werestationed at Rephidim (Wady Feiran), there is nothing in theScripture narrative which should lead us to suppose that the rock wasin the immediate neighborhood of that place (see on Ex17:5). The water on this smitten rock was probably the brook thatdescended from the mount. The water may have flowed at the distanceof many miles from the rock, as the winter torrents do now throughthe wadies of Arabia-Petra (Psa 78:15;Psa 78:16). And the rock may havebeen smitten at such a height, and at a spot bearing such a relationto the Sinaitic valleys, as to furnish in this way supplies of waterto the Israelites during the journey from Horeb by the way of mountSeir and Kadesh-barnea (Deu 1:1;Deu 1:2). On this supposition newlight is, perhaps, cast on the figurative language of the apostle,when he speaks of “the rock following” the Israelites (1Co10:4) [WILSON, Landof the Bible].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made,…. Which was the object of their sin, which lay in making and worshipping it; see Isa 31:7
and burnt it with fire, and stamped it; with his feet after it was burnt, to bring it into small pieces:
and ground it very small; or, as the Targum of Jonathan,
“ground it in a mortar well;”
the burnt and broken pieces:
even until it was as small as dust; being ground to powder, as in
Ex 32:20
and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount; and made the children of Israel to drink of it, as in the previously mentioned place; [See comments on Ex 32:2]; all this was done before the prayer for Aaron and the people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(21) I took your sin . . . and I cast the dust thereof into the brook.The stream from the rock in Horeb not only gave Israel drink, but bore away their sin upon its waters. And that Rock was Christ. This identification of the sin with the material object is in harmony with the Law in Leviticus, where sin and sin-offeringtrespass and trespass offeringare respectively denoted by a single word.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
21. I took your sin, the calf The word which is here translated sin is used sometimes for that which is the occasion of sin. Comp. Hos 10:8.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ver. 21. And I took your sin That is to say, the occasion or matter of your sin, the idol which you had made: it is a metonymy frequently found in Scripture. See Isa 31:7.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
burnt it = burnt it up. Hebrew. saraph. App-43.
descended. Compare Exo 32:20, which is here explained.
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I took: Exo 32:20, Isa 2:18-21, Isa 30:22, Isa 31:7, Hos 8:11
the brook: This was the stream which flowed from the rock that Moses smote with his rod – Exo 17:6, and to which the Psalmist alludes in Psa 78:16-20, Psa 105:41. Philo relates, that upon Moses’ striking the rock, the water poured out like a torrent, affording not only a sufficient quantity for allaying their present thirst, but to fill their water vessels, to carry with them on their journey.
Reciprocal: Deu 7:5 – burn 1Ki 15:13 – and burnt 2Ki 21:15 – since the day 2Ki 23:6 – and burned 2Ch 15:16 – cut down 2Ch 34:4 – made dust 2Ch 34:7 – beaten Psa 78:40 – How oft Psa 106:19 – General Jer 7:25 – the day Hos 10:8 – the sin Amo 8:14 – sin Act 13:18 – about 1Co 10:4 – followed them
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Deu 9:21. I cast the dust thereof into the brook That there might be no monument nor remembrance of the calf left.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the {m} mount.
(m) Horeb, or Sinai.