Exodus 32:12

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Exodus 32:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

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Numbers 14:13

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Numbers 14:14

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14:15

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Numbers 14:16

‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

Deuteronomy 9:28

Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Deuteronomy 32:27

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Psalms 74:18

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Psalms 79:9

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

Psalms 79:10

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

Joshua 7:26

And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Ezra 10:14

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

Psalms 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 85:3

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

Exodus 32:14

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Deuteronomy 32:36

For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

Psalms 90:13

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Psalms 106:45

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

Amos 7:3

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

Amos 7:6

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

Zechariah 8:14

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,