Deuteronomy 9:14

14 Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.'

Deuteronomy 9:14 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:14

Let me alone, that I may destroy them
Do not say one word to me on their behalf, or entreat me to spare them, and not destroy them:

and blot out their name from under heaven;
that no such nation may be heard of, or known by the name of Israel:

and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they;
of his family, whereby the Lord's promise to Abraham would not have been made void, but equally firm and sure, since this mightier and greater nation would have been of his seed; (See Gill on Exodus 32:10).

Deuteronomy 9:14 In-Context

12 Then ADONAI said to me, 'Get up, and hurry down from here, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt. So quickly have they turned aside from the way I ordered them to follow! They have made themselves a metal image!'

13 Moreover, ADONAI said to me, 'I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are!

14 Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.'

15 I came down from the mountain. The mountain was blazing fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 I looked, and there, you had sinned against ADONAI your God! You had made yourselves a metal calf, you had turned aside quickly from the way ADONAI had ordered you to follow.