Exodus 32:14

So then Yahweh was grieved,—over the calamity—which he had spoken of inflicting on his people.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

In Context

13Have remembrance of Abraham, of Isaac and of Israel thy servants to whom thou didst swear by thyself, and didst speak unto them saying, I will multiply your seed, as the stars of the heavens,—and, all this land of which I have spoken, will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it to times age-abiding.

15And Moses turned and went down out of the mount, with the two tables of testimony in his hand,—tables written upon on both sides of them, on this and on that, were they written.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:20And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to thy word;

Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;

Judges 2:18And, when Yahweh raised them up judges, then was Yahweh with the judges, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies, all the days of the judge,—for Yahweh was grieved at their outcry, because of them who oppressed them, and ill-treated them.

1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent a messenger to Jerusalem, to lay it waste, but, as he was laying it waste, Yahweh looked, and relented concerning the calamity, and said unto the messenger who was laying waste, Enough! now, stay thy hand. And, the messenger of Yahweh, was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalms 106:45Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

Jeremiah 26:13Now, therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken unto the voice of Yahweh your God,—that Yahweh may repent him, as to the calamity which he hath spoken concerning you.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:8-15

The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a… Read the whole commentary →

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