Deuteronomy 9:14

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

In Context

13Furthermore LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

Deuteronomy 29:20LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

Psalms 9:5Thou have rebuked the nations. Thou have destroyed the wicked. Thou have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Proverbs 10:7The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,

Jeremiah 15:1Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:8-29

Cautions Against Self-Righteousness; Israel Reminded of Their Rebellions. ( b. c. 1451.) 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord . 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the… Read the whole commentary →

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