Deuteronomy 9:28

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you destroy your people, the Egyptians will say, “The LORD promised to give Israel land, but he wasn't powerful enough to keep his promise. In fact, he hated them so much that he took them into the desert and killed them.”

Cross References

Exodus 32:12

If you do, the Egyptians will say that you brought your people out here into the mountains just to get rid of them. Please don't be angry with your people. Don't destroy them!

Ezekiel 20:9

But that would have made me look like a liar, because I had already promised in front of everyone that I would lead them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:27

You stayed in your tents and grumbled, “The LORD must hate us—he brought us out of Egypt, just so he could hand us over to the Amorites and get rid of us.

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I dreaded the sound of your enemies saying, ‘We defeated Israel with no help from the LORD.’ ”

Deuteronomy 9:27

Israel's ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob obeyed you faithfully. Think about them, and not about Israel's stubbornness, evil, and sin.

Joshua 7:9

Everyone will think you weren't strong enough to protect your people. Now the Canaanites and everyone else who lives in the land will surround us and wipe us out.