15. Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16. Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give unto them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
17. And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18. The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.