Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
let me alone] desist from me; Exo 32:10 let me rest, give me peace.
destroy See on Deu 1:27.
blot out their name, etc.] Deu 29:20; Deu 25:19: cp. synonym in Deu 7:24 q.v.Not in Exo 32:10.
a nation…
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