Exodus 33:3
Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
Cross References
Exodus 3:17I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
Exodus 23:21Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Exodus 32:14So the LORD turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
Exodus 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
Numbers 13:27They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Numbers 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier 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 →