Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 33:3

3 Unto 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 .

By my own special and gracious presence, as hitherto I have done, but I will depart from thee. In pursuance hereof God removes his tabernacle without the camp, ver. 7. I will onely make good my promise to thy fathers, and send an Angel to accomplish it, but I will shew no peculiar and further kindness to thee.

Lest thy sins should be aggravated by my presence, and favour and thereby I should be provoked utterly to destroy thee. So he shews that their perverseness makes this severity necessary for them, and that God even in his judgement remembers mercy to them.

Marginal references: chap. 32. Deut. 9. 13.