Exodus 33:5
And LORD said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people. If I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee. Therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do to t
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4And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no man put his ornaments on him.
6And the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
Cross References
Genesis 22:12And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.
Exodus 33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.
Numbers 16:45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Job 34:20In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou are obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 33:2-7
The Israelites Reproved. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought 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… Read the whole commentary →