Deuteronomy 9:14

Cease from thy prayer before me, and I will destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I will make thee for a people stronger and greater than they.

Targum Onkelos

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

13And the Lord spake to me, saying: This people are disclosed before me, and, behold, it is a hard-necked people.

15And I turned and descended from the mount; and the mountain burned with fire, and the two tables of the covenant were upon my two hands.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32But now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin! But if not, blot me now out of the Book, which Thou hast written.

Deuteronomy 29:20And the Lord will separate him from all the tribes of Israel unto evil, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in the book of this law.

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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