Verse 5

For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:21 : 21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said.“Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
  • Exod 33:3-4 : 3 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.” 4 When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.
  • Num 16:21 : 21 “Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”
  • Num 16:45-46 : 45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 46 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!”
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
  • Lam 4:6 : 6 ו(Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.