20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-33)Three gracious promises are here made to Israel, to engage them to their duty and encourage them in it; and each of the promises has some needful precepts and cautions joined to it. I. It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise: Behold, I send an angel before thee (Exod. 23:20), my angel (Exod. 23:23), a created angel, say som…
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