Deuteronomy 9:14

14 And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

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 And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

13 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

14 And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

15 And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies in my two hands.

16 And when I saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;