Deuteronomy 9:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:16 : 16 ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
  • Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

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  • Deut 1:27
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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 14:16
    79%

    16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • Deut 6:23
    78%

    23He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

  • Jer 2:6
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    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Deut 9:27
    78%

    27Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

  • Deut 9:29
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    29They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

  • Num 14:3
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    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 32:12
    75%

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Num 16:13-14
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    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • Num 20:4
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    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Josh 24:17
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    17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 26:8-9
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    8Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

    9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 29:25
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    25Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 29:28
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    28So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

  • Deut 6:12
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    12be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.

  • Deut 9:4-5
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    4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Ezek 20:10
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    10“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

  • Deut 1:19
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    19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • Deut 7:8
    74%

    8Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • Deut 1:34
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    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Deut 8:14-15
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    14be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,

    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

  • Dan 9:15
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    15“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

  • Num 32:8-9
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    8Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

    9When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Num 32:15
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    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Exod 17:3
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    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

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    37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

  • Num 14:8-9
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    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

    9Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”

  • Deut 11:5
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    5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

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    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

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    14Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

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    15I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

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    2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

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    23And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.