Exodus 33:5
The LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
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.
6The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
Cross References
Genesis 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Exodus 33:3Go 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.”
Numbers 16:45“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
Job 34:20In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Psalms 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
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 →