Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Exodus 33:12-16

Share

Settings

Moses Intercedes

12 Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, '1Bring up this people!' But You Yourself have not let me know 2whom You will send with me. 3Moreover, You have said, 'I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'
13 "Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, 4let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. 5Consider too, that this nation is Your people."
14 And He said, "6My presence shall go with you, and 7I will give you rest."
15 Then he said to Him, "8If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
16 "For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that 9we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?"
Read Chapter Compare

Exodus 33:12-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 33

This chapter informs us, that the Lord refusing to go with the people, only sending an angel with them, they are filled with concern, and troubled, Ex 33:1-6. Moses upon this pitched the tabernacle without the camp, where everyone that sought the Lord went; Moses entered into it himself, and the Lord talked to him in a friendly manner in the cloudy pillar that stood at the door of it, and the people worshipped, every man at his own tent door; all which foreboded good, and tended to reconciliation, Ex 33:7-11. Moses improved the opportunity, and entreats the presence of God to go with them, which was granted, Ex 33:12-17 and that he might have a sight of the glory of God; and this is promised to pass before him, he being put into the cleft of the rock, Ex 33:18-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. Exodus 3:10; Exodus 32:34
  • 2. Exodus 33:2
  • 3. Exodus 33:17
  • 4. Psalms 25:4; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 51:13; Psalms 86:11; Psalms 119:33
  • 5. Exodus 3:7, 10; Exodus 5:1; Exodus 32:12, 14; Deuteronomy 9:26, 29
  • 6. Deuteronomy 4:37; Isaiah 63:9
  • 7. Deuteronomy 12:10; Deuteronomy 25:19; Joshua 21:44; Joshua 22:4
  • 8. Ps 80:3, 7, 19
  • 9. Leviticus 20:24, 26

Footnotes 1

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.