--- title: "Bullinger" description: "raise = utter, or take up. Same as Exodus 20:7 . the wicked = a wicked one. Hebrew. rash" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/exodus/23" --- **raise** = utter, or take up. Same as [Exodus 20:7](../../../kjv/exodus/20/7) . **the wicked** = a wicked one. Hebrew. *rash ' a.* App-44 . **evil-injury** . Hebrew. *r* ' *a ' a.* See App-44 . **speak** = testify. **decline** = "turn away [and follow]". Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 . a). **countenance** = prefer, or favour. **ox or his ass** . Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 , put for any kind of beast of burden. **help** . Hebrew. *Homonym. 'azab* two words (1) *'azab =* to leave, or forsake. (2) *'azab* = to help, or restore (hence strengthen, or fortify). No. 1 in [Genesis 2:24](../../../kjv/genesis/2/24) ; [Genesis 39:6](../../../kjv/genesis/39/6) . [Nehemiah 5:10](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/10) . [Psalms 49:10](../../../kjv/psalms/49/10) . [Malachi 4](../../../kjv/malachi/4) . But here it should be No. 2 (as in [Nehemiah 3:8](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/8) . [Deuteronomy 32:36](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/36) . 1Ki 14:10 . [2 Kings 14:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/26) . [Jeremiah 49:25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/49/25) ). **surely help with him** . Figure of speech *Polyptoton (* *App-6* *),* "helping shalt help him", or, supplying the *Ellipsis, "* surely help him [to unload]". **wicked** = a wicked one. Hebrew. *rash ' a.* *App-44* *.* **blindeth . . . perverteth** : i.e. causeth these acts, or *sins.* Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), App-6 . **wise** . Hebrew seeing the most clear-sighted. **heart** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **fruits** . Hebrew harvest. **and** . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have this in text; it need not, therefore, be in italics. **refreshed** . Hebrew verbal form of *nephesh (soul) =* quickened, have new life put in, renewed, or revived. **be circumspect** = take heed. **make no mention** , &c. A command often disobeyed, especially in house *of* Saul. Compare "Baal", [1 Chronicles 8:33](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/8/33) ; [1 Chronicles 9:39](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/9/39) ; 1Ch 12:5 ; [1 Chronicles 14:7](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/14/7) ; [1 Chronicles 27:28](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/27/28) . Hence the importance *of* the prophecy as to the future in [Hosea 2:16](../../../kjv/hosea/2/16) , [Hosea 2:17](../../../kjv/hosea/2/17) . **Three times** . No. *of* Divine perfection. App-10 . **as** = according as. **month Abib** . See App-51 . **appear before Me** . This is the current Hebrew text: but this, and ten other passages were altered by the Sopherim (only in the pointing). App-33 . The primitive text read (and ought to be) "see My face". They did not know that "face" was used by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , for the person "Me", and they thought it too anthropomorphitic. See note on [Exodus 34:20](../../../kjv/exodus/34/20) . **empty** = empty-handed. **before** = Hebrew "before the face *of".* **THE Lord God** = Hebrew. *ha-'adon Jehovah.* See App-4 . **offer** . Hebrew "slay", requiring the supply *of* the *Ellipsis,* ii. d ( App-8 ), "slay [and pour out]". See App-43 . **sacrifice** . Hebrew "feast", put by *Metonymy* (of Adjunct' for "festal sacrifice" ( App-6 ). **the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 . **God** . Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 . **mother's** : i.e. in the milk *of its* dam. Repeated, Exo 84:26 and [Deuteronomy 14:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/14/21) . For similar consideration compare [Deuteronomy 22:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/6) . [Leviticus 22:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/22/28) . **Behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos* ( App-6 ) for emphasis. an angel. It is Elohim speaking, therefore, who can it be but Micha-el? Compare [Daniel 10:13](../../../kjv/daniel/10/13) , [Daniel 10:21](../../../kjv/daniel/10/21) ; [Daniel 12:1](../../../kjv/daniel/12/1) .[Jude 1:9](../../../kjv/jude/1/9) ; and see [Malachi 3:1](../../../kjv/malachi/3/1) ; [Isaiah 63:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/9) . **transgressions** = Hebrew. *pasha.* App-44 . My name. Compare [Jeremiah 23:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/26) . [Colossians 2:9](../../../kjv/colossians/2/9) . **the Hivites** . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, and one early printed edition, read "and the Hivites". **them** = the six nations. See App-10 . **images** = sacred pillars or statues. [Exodus 24:4](../../../kjv/exodus/24/4) ; [Exodus 34:13](../../../kjv/exodus/34/13) . See note on [Exodus 26](../../../kjv/exodus/26) . **bread** , and thy water. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 , put for all kinds of food and drink. **My fear** = a terror of me. **hornets** . Compare [Deuteronomy 7:20](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/20) . [Joshua 24:12](../../../kjv/joshua/24/12) . **sea of the Philistines** = the Mediterranean or "Great Sea". **from the desert** = the desert of Shur. **the river** = the Euphrates. **the inhabitants** . Some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and one early printed edition, read "all the inhabitants". **sin** . 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