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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2017 April 5
Image 1: The Tent of the Meeting
Image Credit: What's Pshat
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Image 2: The Meeting (1465-1474)
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506)
Italian Renaissance Style, Paduan School
Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
Image Credit: Web Gallery of Art
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no days will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: In Exodus 33 Moses intercedes with the LORD, pleading with him to go up in their midst and to show him his glory. When the chapter opens, the LORD tells Moses to take the people of Israel and go to the promised land, saying that he would send an angel before them and would drive out the inhabitants, but he would not go up in the midst of them lest he consume them while they were en route because of their stiff-necked ways (1-3).
When the people heard this, they set aside their ornaments and mourned as the LORD commanded them to do. From that point on, they ceased to wear the ornaments they had used in making the golden calf (4-6).
And, customarily, Moses pitched the Tent of the Meeting outside the camp; and everyone who sought the LORD would go there. Whenever Moses went to the Tent, the people stood by their tent doors and watched; and, when the LORD descended to that spot in a pillar of cloud to talk to Moses, the people would worship while the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his assistant Joshua would remain at the tent (7-11).
After the LORD spoke to Moses about going up among them, he asked the LORD to show him his ways in order to know him and find favor in his sight. And he asked the LORD to consider that Israel was his people. The LORD then agreed to be present with them and give them rest. To be absolutely certain of the meaning of this promise, Moses asked that they could stay where they were if the LORD was not going to go among them; otherwise, he asked, how could they know they had obtained his favor and that they were uniquely his people (12-16).
The LORD then said that he would do the very thing which Moses asked because he found favor in his sight and because he knew him by name. Moses then asked to see the LORD's glory -- to have an even more intimate understanding and connection to him than before. The LORD agreed to make all of his goodness to pass before Moses, but not to show him his face because no one could see God's face and live. The LORD then showed him a place to stand in a cleft in a rock where he would cover him with his hand until he passed by and then show him his back (17-23).
[ Sermons: James Philip. Various. ]
[ Illustration: The Images above are suggestive of two main aspects of Exodus 33. The First Image represents the Tabernacle (Tent of the Meeting), which is featured in Exodus 33 as the place where God met Moses and the repentant people who came to the Tabernacle to confess their sins and to find forgiveness. The Second Image symbolizes meetings outside the Tabernacle -- casual or formal, cordial to hostile. ]
RESOURCES
PLEASE NOTE: Use the resources on this and other sites thoughtfully, particularly the commentaries and encyclopedias. I have attempted to list conservative, scholarly resources. However, some providers use liberal or liberal-influenced commentaries such as the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (in Bible Hub). Such commentaries are undoubtedly included by the provider for the wealth of useful information and comments which they provide. By consulting several commentaries, it should be fairly easy to sort out the wheat from the chaff. If, however, you would like personal assistance, write to me at AD LIB ARTS EMAIL.
[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Exodus 33: 12] Nahum 1:7; Matthew 7:23; 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 4:9; 2 Timothy 2:19; Genesis 6:8; Genesis 19:19; Luke 1:30; Acts 7:46.
[19] Romans 9:15.
[20] Genesis 32:30; Exodus 24:10; Deuteronomy 5:24; Judges 6:22; Judges 13:22; Isaiah 6:5. -- From the KJV Reference Bible ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
Pentateuch Detailed Outline:
Genesis Detailed Outline:
Exodus Detailed Outline:
Exodus 33
EXODUS (COVENANT PEOPLE DELIVERED AND INSTRUCTED: COVENANT ESTABLISHED)
1. Promised (Covenanted) Deliverance [cf., Ge 15:16] - (Ex 1:1 - Ex 18:27)
{Pentateuch Outline: Section 13. Generations of Levi - Ex 6:14 - Nu 2:34) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Egypt & Sinai}
2. Promised (Covenanted) Instruction (Ex 19:1 - Nu 2:34) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Sinai, which,
in Exodus = Instruction for the People in General (or "THE VISITS") (Ex 19:1 - Ex 40:38) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Sinai
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast bought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked [stiff necked]
people: lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked [stiff necked] people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee [before your face], and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by , that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover [entwine upon] thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
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