cSee Ex. 32:11-13
Exodus 32:12
12 aWhy should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and brelent from this disaster against your people.Deuteronomy 9:26-28
26 cAnd I prayed to the Lord, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 28lest the land from which you brought us say, d“Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”Deuteronomy 32:27
27had I not feared provocation by the enemy,lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, e“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
Joshua 7:8-9
8O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and fcut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”Psalms 106:23
23Therefore ghe said he would destroy them—had not Moses, his hchosen one,
istood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Ezekiel 20:9
9 jBut I acted kfor the sake of my name, lthat it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, min whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 20:14
14But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, nin whose sight I had brought them out.
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