Exodus 33:3
Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.
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In Context
4Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.
Cross References
Exodus 3:17And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 23:21Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
Exodus 32:14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.
Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.
Numbers 13:27And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
Numbers 14:12I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
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 →