Psalms 106:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

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  • Ps 105:6 : 6 O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
  • Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
  • Deut 10:10 : 10 And I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD was not willing to destroy you.
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
  • Ps 105:26 : 26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
  • Ezek 13:5 : 5 You have not gone up into the gaps nor built a hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
  • Exod 32:10-14 : 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." 11 Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" 14 So the LORD relented from the evil which He thought to do to His people.
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written."
  • Num 16:5 : 5 And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Tomorrow the LORD will show who are His, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near to Him: even him whom He has chosen will He cause to come near to Him.
  • Deut 9:13-14 : 13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stiff-necked people: 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
  • Deut 9:19 : 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

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    22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

  • Exod 32:9-12
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    9The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people.

    10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

    11Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people.

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went badly with Moses for their sakes;

    33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

  • Ps 106:7-10
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    7Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

    8Nevertheless, he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

    9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

    10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

  • Ps 106:26
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    26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness.

  • Ps 105:26
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    26He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

  • Ps 106:24
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    24Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word.

  • Ps 78:38
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    38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them: yes, many a time he turned away his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.

  • Isa 63:11-12
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    11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit within him?

    12Who led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

  • Deut 9:26
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    26I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

  • Num 14:13
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    13And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

  • Ps 78:50
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    50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

  • Num 27:15
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    15And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

  • Num 25:10
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    10And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 17:4
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    4And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

  • Ps 78:31
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    31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.

  • Num 16:15
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    15And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, Respect not their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I harmed one of them.

  • Num 14:11
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    11And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

  • Ps 106:16
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    16They also envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Josh 11:20
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    41And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

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    15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

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    21And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 14:26-27
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    26And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

    27And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

  • Ps 106:29-30
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    29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them.

    30Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, and so the plague was stopped.

  • Ps 124:3
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    3Then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

  • Ps 136:14-15
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    14And made Israel pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures forever:

    15But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures forever.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses said to them, Have you kept all the women alive?

  • Neh 9:17
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    17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

  • Heb 3:17
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    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonders among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  • Num 16:28
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    28And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own will.