Deuteronomy 9:25-29

25So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you. 26I prayed therefore to Jehovah, and said, Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand. 27Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin; 28lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he had promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. 29They are indeed thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy great power and with thy stretched-out arm.