Examples Of Exodus 32: 7-11

Exodus 32:7-14 shows the interaction between Moses and God following the Golden Calf incident. God is ready to destroy His people, but Moses successfully pleads that God changes his mind. This passage may appear to some that God’s power and divinity should be questioned; however, through this interaction with Moses, God shows that He wants to be a relational God who gives His people enough free will to make their own decisions while still being able to use them for his ultimate plan.
When God chose the Israelite people to be his people, He created a covenant with them. The Israelites had a hard time upholding their side of the covenant. This was demonstrated in verse 8 when God exclaims to Moses, “They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf” (Exodus 32:8 New International Version). As implied in this statement, this act of creating and worshipping an idol was a direct violation of the covenantal agreement. Not only does this result in God threatening to destroy them, it causes God to immediately disown the people He chose to be His own. Earlier in this passage it says, “Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go downs, because your people whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt” (Exodus
Even though Moses is also reminding God of His promise, one should not assume that God had forgotten about it. One author suggests that “the fact that [Yahweh] wanted to make Moses into a great nation implies that He had not forgotten His promise to Abraham” (Widmer, 2003, p. 77). By offering to make Moses into a great nation, God shows that He remembers His promise of land, descendants and relationship that was made to Abraham. By following through with the threat made to the Israelites, God would have simply altered the fashion through which He followed through with His ancestral