Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
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.
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Mid´i-anites as one man.