Exodus 32:12

Moses argues that destroying Israel would dishonor God's name among the Egyptians. He asks God to turn from wrath for the sake of His reputation.

Cross-references · 23

• Num 14:13–16Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
• Deut 9:28lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh 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.’
• Josh 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
• Exod 32:14Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
• Deut 13:17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
• Deut 32:26–27I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
• Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
• Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
• Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Amos 7:6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ps 85:3You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
• Ezek 20:14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Gen 6:6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
• Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
• Amos 7:3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
• Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
• Deut 32:36For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
• Zech 8:14For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
• Ps 79:9–10Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
• Ezra 10:14Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
• Josh 7:26They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
• Ezek 20:22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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