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Deuteronomy 9:14

Let me destroy these people completely, so no one will even remember their names. Then I will make another nation from you that is stronger and greater than these people.'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Humility;   Israel;   Moses;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Memory-Oblivion;   Name;   Oblivion;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Calf of Gold;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Astrology;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Euphrates and Tigris Rivers;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Calf, Golden;   Deuteronomy;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Blot out;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
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.
Lexham English Bible
Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!'
English Standard Version
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
New Century Version
Get away so that I may destroy them and make the whole world forget who they are. Then I will make another nation from you that will be bigger and stronger than they are."
New English Translation
Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are."
Amplified Bible
'Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
New American Standard Bible
'Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, & put out their name fro vnder heaue, & I wil make of thee a mightie nation, & greater then they be.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.'
Contemporary English Version
So don't try to stop me! I am going to wipe them out, and no one on earth will remember they ever lived. Then I will let your descendants become an even bigger and more powerful nation than Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.'
Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
Now let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
Good News Translation
Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'
Christian Standard Bible®
Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’
Literal Translation
Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let me alone, that I maye destroye them, and put out their name from vnder heaue. I wyl make of the a people mightier and greater the this is.
American Standard 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.
Bible in Basic English
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, & put out the name of them from vnder heauen, and I wyll make of thee a mightie nation, & greater then they be.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.'
King James Version (1611)
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from vnder heauen: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater then they.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
suffre thou me, that I alto breke hym, and do awey the name `of hym fro vndur heuene; and Y schal ordeyne thee on a folk which is grettere and strongere than this folk.
Young's Literal Translation
desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.
Update Bible Version
let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
New King James Version
Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
New Living Translation
Leave me alone so I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'
New Life Bible
Let Me alone, so I may destroy them and destroy their name from under heaven. I will make you into a nation that will be greater and stronger than they.'
New Revised Standard
Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and wipe out their name from under the heavens, - and make thee into a nation stronger and more in number than they.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.
Revised Standard Version
let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

Contextual Overview

7 "Remember how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. Never forget that! From the day you left the land of Egypt to the day you came to this place, you have refused to obey the Lord . 8 You made the Lord angry at Mount Horeb. The Lord was angry enough to destroy you! 9 I went up the mountain to get the stone tablets. The agreement that the Lord made with you was written on those stones. I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat any food or drink any water. 10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets. He wrote his commands on the stones with his finger. The Lord wrote everything he said to you from the fire when you were gathered together at the mountain. 11 "So at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me two stone tablets—the stones of the agreement. 12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and quickly go down from here. The people you brought out of Egypt have ruined themselves. They stopped obeying my commands so quickly. They melted gold and made an idol for themselves.' 13 "The Lord also said to me, ‘I have watched these people. They are very stubborn! 14 Let me destroy these people completely, so no one will even remember their names. Then I will make another nation from you that is stronger and greater than these people.' 15 "Then I turned and came down from the mountain. The mountain was burning with fire. And the two stone tablets of the agreement were in my hands. 16 I looked and I saw you had sinned against the Lord your God. I saw the calf you made from melted gold! You stopped obeying the Lord so quickly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let me: Exodus 32:10-13, Isaiah 62:6, Isaiah 62:7, Jeremiah 14:11, Jeremiah 15:1, Luke 11:7-10, Luke 18:1-8, Acts 7:51

blot: Deuteronomy 29:20, Exodus 32:32, Exodus 32:33, Psalms 9:5, Psalms 109:13, Proverbs 10:7, Revelation 3:5

and I will: Numbers 14:11, Numbers 14:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:22 - for Genesis 32:26 - Let me go Deuteronomy 7:24 - their name Deuteronomy 25:6 - that his name Deuteronomy 25:19 - thou shalt 2 Kings 14:27 - blot out Ezra 9:14 - wouldest not thou Psalms 106:23 - he said

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let me alone, that I may destroy them,.... Do not say one word to me on their behalf, or entreat me to spare them, and not destroy them:

and blot out their name from under heaven; that no such nation may be heard of, or known by the name of Israel:

and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they; of his family, whereby the Lord's promise to Abraham would not have been made void, but equally firm and sure, since this mightier and greater nation would have been of his seed; :-.


 
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