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

And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

Lest the land from which you brought us out should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?

Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.

But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

Turn from

And there shall cleave none of the accursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn unto your fathers;

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them who have taken foreign wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter is turned from us.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

You have taken away all your anger: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

Repent

And the LORD turned from the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

For the LORD shall judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none left, slave or free.

Return, O LORD, how long? and may you have compassion concerning your servants.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies.

The LORD relented concerning this: It shall not be, says the LORD.

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

For thus says the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I relented not:

General references

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech you.

Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?