Exodus 33:3

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Summary

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

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Stiff-necked

Acts 7:51

Lest i

General references

Exodus 33:15

Numbers 13:27

Bible References

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Moses said: If you are not going with us, please do not make us leave this place.

Now let me alone. Let my anger burn against them. I am so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.

I will send an epidemic and destroy them. I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!

I would have said: 'I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.'

Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me all the days of your life.' Now Jehovah says: Far be it from me. I will honor those who honor me. I will not regard those who think little of me.

At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom.

When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.

I may promise life to someone good, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins.

Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.

Stiff-necked

Jehovah added: I have seen these people. They have an iron sinew (stiff necked people) (are impossible to deal with).

He prayed: Jehovah, if you really are pleased with me, I pray that you will go with us. It is true that these people are sinful and rebellious. However, please forgive our sin and let us be your people.

Understand this! It is not because you have been living right that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are a rebellious and impossible (stiff-necked) (stubborn) people!

They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Lest i

Be on your guard before him and obey his voice. Do not be rebellious toward him. He will not pardon your transgression, since my name is in him. (He has my honor, authority and character)

Now let me alone. Let my anger burn against them. I am so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.

Move away from these men. I will destroy them instantly.

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, said the Lord Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

General references

Moses said: If you are not going with us, please do not make us leave this place.

This is their report to Moses: We went to the land where you sent us. It really is a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit.