Exodus 33:5
And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou are a stiffnecked people; once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do with thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by mount Horeb.
Cross References
Genesis 22:12And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
Exodus 33:3That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I destroy thee in the way.
Numbers 16:45Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
Job 34:20They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.
Isaiah 48:4For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as 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 →