Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

International Standard Version

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

A Conservative Version

to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

Go up to a land [of abundance] flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Go] to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you [are] a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way."

Modern King James verseion

to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that thou mayest go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way."

NET Bible

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

New Heart English Bible

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

The Emphasized Bible

into a land flowing with milk and honey, - for I will not go up in thy midst in that a stiff-necked people, thou art, lest I consume thee in the way.

Webster

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

World English Bible

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

Youngs Literal Translation

unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

זוּב 
Zuwb 
Usage: 42

with milk
חלב 
Chalab 
Usage: 44

and honey
דּבשׁ 
D@bash 
Usage: 54

for I will not go up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

in the midst
קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

of thee for thou art a stiffnecked
קשׁה 
Qasheh 
Usage: 36

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Command To Resume Travel

2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.” 4 When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

Cross References

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 32:9-10

And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 33:15-17

And he said to him, "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.

Numbers 16:21

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

Numbers 16:45

"Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."And they fell on their faces.

Exodus 13:5

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

Exodus 23:21

Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him

Exodus 32:14

And the LORDrelented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Exodus 34:9

And he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Numbers 13:27

And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Numbers 14:8

If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

Numbers 16:13

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

Deuteronomy 9:6-13

"Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 32:26-27

I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"

Joshua 5:6

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORDswore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,'but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Psalm 78:8

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Jeremiah 11:5

that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."

Jeremiah 18:7-10

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

Ezekiel 3:18-19

If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,'and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13-16

Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.

Amos 3:13-14

"Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Acts 7:51

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

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