Exodus 32:12
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12 Why let the Egyptians say, ‘Their God rescued them with the evil intention of slaughtering them in the mountains and wiping them from the face of the earth’? Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you have threatened against your people!
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Numbers 14:13-16
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Moses Intercedes for the People
13 But Moses objected. “What will the Egyptians think when they hear about it?” he asked the Lord. “They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing your people from Egypt. 14 Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, Lord, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 16 ‘The Lord was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.’
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Deuteronomy 9:28
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28 If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, “The Israelites died because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them.” Or they might say, “He destroyed them because he hated them; he deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them.”
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Joshua 7:9
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9 For when the Canaanites and all the other people living in the land hear about it, they will surround us and wipe our name off the face of the earth. And then what will happen to the honor of your great name?”
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Exodus 32:14
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14 So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people.
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Zechariah 8:14
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14 “For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: I was determined to punish you when your ancestors angered me, and I did not change my mind, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Jonah 3:9
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9 Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
Amos 7:6
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6 Then the Lord relented from this plan, too. “I will not do that either,” said the Sovereign Lord.
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Amos 7:3
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3 So the Lord relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.
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Ezekiel 20:22
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22 Nevertheless, I withdrew my judgment against them to protect the honor of my name before the nations that had seen my power in bringing them out of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:14
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14 But again I held back in order to protect the honor of my name before the nations who had seen my power in bringing Israel out of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:9
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9 But I didn’t do it, for I acted to protect the honor of my name. I would not allow shame to be brought on my name among the surrounding nations who saw me reveal myself by bringing the Israelites out of Egypt.
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Psalm 106:45
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45 He remembered his covenant with them
and relented because of his unfailing love.
Psalm 90:13
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13 O Lord, come back to us!
How long will you delay?
Take pity on your servants!
Psalm 85:3
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3 You held back your fury.
You kept back your blazing anger.
Psalm 79:9-10
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9 Help us, O God of our salvation!
Help us for the glory of your name.
Save us and forgive our sins
for the honor of your name.
10 Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff,
asking, “Where is their God?”
Show us your vengeance against the nations,
for they have spilled the blood of your servants.
Psalm 78:38
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38 Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins
and did not destroy them all.
Many times he held back his anger
and did not unleash his fury!
Psalm 74:18
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18 See how these enemies insult you, Lord.
A foolish nation has dishonored your name.
Ezra 10:14
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14 Let our leaders act on behalf of us all. Let everyone who has a pagan wife come at a scheduled time, accompanied by the leaders and judges of his city, so that the fierce anger of our God concerning this affair may be turned away from us.”
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Joshua 7:26
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26 They piled a great heap of stones over Achan, which remains to this day. That is why the place has been called the Valley of Trouble[a] ever since. So the Lord was no longer angry.
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- 7:26 Hebrew valley of Achor.
Deuteronomy 32:36
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36 “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people,
and he will change his mind about[a] his servants,
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free.
Footnotes
- 32:36 Or will take revenge for.
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
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26 I would have annihilated them,
wiping out even the memory of them.
27 But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy,
who might misunderstand and say,
“Our own power has triumphed!
The Lord had nothing to do with this!”’
Deuteronomy 13:17
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17 Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a large nation, just as he swore to your ancestors.
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Genesis 6:6
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6 So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.
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