Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 33:1-23
Assurance of God’s presence (33:1-23)Because of his mercy God allowed the people to continue their journey to the land he had promised their ancestors, but because of their sin he could not go with them lest he destroy them. However, he promised to send a heavenly representative to go before them into Canaan. He also required the people to give a clear outward sign of mourning for their past sin and the loss of fellowship with God that resulted from it (33:1-6).God’s refusal to go with Israel... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 33:1
Exodus 33:1. Go up hence, thou and the people God here seems to disown them, and calls them no more his people, because of their perfidiousness and idolatry. read more