Éxodo 33:2

2 Enviaré un ángel delante de ti, y desalojaré a cananeos, amorreos, hititas, ferezeos, heveos y jebuseos.

Éxodo 33:2 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 33:2

And I will send an angel before thee
Not the angel before promised, ( Exodus 23:20 ) the Angel of his presence, the eternal Word and Son of God, but a created angel; and so Aben Ezra observes, he does not say the Angel that was known, that his name was in him; though even this was to be looked upon as a favour, and showed that he had not utterly cast them off:

and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
who were now the inhabitants of the land, and these he promises drive out, to make way for their possession of it; and that "by his hand", as the Targum of Jonathan interprets it, by the hand of the angel. Only six nations are mentioned, though there were seven; the Girgashite is omitted, but added in the Septuagint version.

Éxodo 33:2 In-Context

1 El SEÑOR le dijo a Moisés: «Anda, vete de este lugar, junto con el pueblo que sacaste de Egipto, y dirígete a la tierra que bajo juramento prometí a Abraham, Isaac y Jacob que les daría a sus descendientes.

2 Enviaré un ángel delante de ti, y desalojaré a cananeos, amorreos, hititas, ferezeos, heveos y jebuseos.

3 Ve a la tierra donde abundan la leche y la miel. Yo no los acompañaré, porque ustedes son un pueblo terco, y podría yo destruirlos en el camino».

4 Cuando los israelitas oyeron estas palabras tan demoledoras, comenzaron a llorar y nadie volvió a ponerse sus adornos,

5 pues el SEÑOR le había dicho a Moisés: «Diles a los israelitas que son un pueblo terco. Si aun por un momento tuviera que acompañarlos, podría destruirlos. Diles que se quiten esas joyas, que ya decidiré qué hacer con ellos».