Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have told them I was going to cut them to pieces and wipe out even the memory of them;

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In The King James Version

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

In Context

25Outside in the streets the sword kills their children, inside their homes, they die from fright; young men and young women, children and old people.

27but I didn't want to hear their conquerors jeering, their enemies misunderstanding what had happened and saying, ‘We won all by ourselves, the Lord didn't have anything to do with it.’

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Cross References

Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians be able to say, ‘He brought them out with the evil purpose of killing them in the mountains, wiping them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger. Please change your mind over the threat against your people.

Leviticus 26:38You'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country.

Deuteronomy 9:14Leave me, so that I can destroy them and wipe out their name completely. Then I will turn you into a nation even more powerful and more important than them.”

Deuteronomy 28:37You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will laugh at you and ridicule you.

Psalms 34:16The Lord sets himself against those who do evil. He will wipe out even the memory of them from the earth.

Isaiah 63:16But you are still our Father, even though Abraham wouldn't know us and Israel wouldn't acknowledge us. You, Lord, are our Father; you have always been called our Redeemer from long ago.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:20-26

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled… Read the whole commentary →

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