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Exd 32:12 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

should		Num 14:13-16; Deu 9:28; Deu 32:26,27; Jos 7:9; Psa 74:18; Psa 79:9,10; Eze 20:9,14,22
Turn from		Deu 13:17; Jos 7:26; Ezr 10:14; Psa 78:38; Psa 85:3
repent		Exd 32:14; Gen 6:6; Deu 32:36; Psa 90:13; Psa 106:45; Amo 7:3,6; Jon 3:9; Zec 8:14

Correlating Passages

should

	Num 14:13	And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
	Num 14:14	And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
	Num 14:15	Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
	Num 14:16	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.
	Deu 9:28	Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
	Deu 32:26	I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
	Deu 32:27	Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
	Jos 7:9	For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
	Psa 74:18	Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
	Psa 79:9	Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
	Psa 79:10	Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of thy servants [which is] shed.
	Eze 20:9	But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
	Eze 20:14	But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
	Eze 20:22	Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Turn from

	Deu 13:17	And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
	Jos 7:26	And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
	Ezr 10:14	Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
	Psa 78:38	But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
	Psa 85:3	Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself] from the fierceness of thine anger.

repent

	Exd 32:14	And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
	Gen 6:6	And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
	Deu 32:36	For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.
	Psa 90:13	Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
	Psa 106:45	And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
	Amo 7:3	The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
	Amo 7:6	The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
	Jon 3:9	Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
	Zec 8:14	For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 32:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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