Deuteronomy 9:25-29 - Moses' Plea On Behalf Of The Lord's Reputation
25 So I fell down before LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 And I prayed to LORD, and said, O lord LORD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou have redeemed through thy greatness, that thou have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their profaneness, nor to their sin, 28 lest the land from where thou brought us out say, Because LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou brought out by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm.