Numbers 14:15-16
15Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16‘It is because the Lord awas not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’Deuteronomy 32:26-27
26 bI would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;cI will wipe them from human memory,”
27had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, d“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
Isaiah 52:5
5Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and econtinually all the day my name is despised.Ezekiel 20:9
9 fBut I acted gfor the sake of my name, hthat it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, iin whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 20:39
39“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: jGo serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; kbut my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.Romans 2:24
24For, las it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed mamong the Gentiles because of you.”
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