14Let 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.
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The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. …
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-29)That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness , Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: “ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deut. 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure.” Their f…
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