Deuteronomy 9:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Let me

Acts 7:51

Blot

General references

Nehemiah 9:18

Psalm 106:19

Bible References

Let me

Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;

So the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

Blot

The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will

burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked;
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Let his posterity be cut off;
In a following generation let their name be blotted out.

The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.

He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

General references

“Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, ‘This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,

They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.