Exodus 32:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Should

Ezekiel 20:9

Turn from

Psalm 85:3

Repent

General references

Numbers 12:13

Psalm 115:2

Bible References

Should

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,

I will remove the memory of them from men,”

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;

And deliver us and

forgive our sins for Your name’s sake.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Turn from

Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers,

They raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of Achor to this day.

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”

But He, being compassionate,

forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;

And often He

restrained His anger

And did not arouse all His wrath.

You withdrew all Your fury;
You turned away from Your burning anger.

Repent

So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

“For the Lord will vindicate His people,

And will have compassion on His servants,

When He sees that their strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And

relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

The Lord

changed His mind about this.

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

“For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I have not relented,

General references

Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray!”

Why should the nations say,

“Where, now, is their God?”