Deuteronomy 25:6

25:6 Then ¹  the first son ²  she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Joshua 7:9

7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ³  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ⁴ 

Psalms 34:16

34:16 But the Lord opposes evildoers

and wipes out all memory of them from the earth. ⁵ 

Psalms 109:15

109:15 May the Lord be constantly aware of them, ⁶ 

and cut off the memory of his children ⁷  from the earth!

Isaiah 48:19

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ⁸ 

and your children ⁹  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ¹⁰ 

Zechariah 13:2

13:2 And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove ¹¹  the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

¹ tn Heb “and it will be that.”

² tn Heb “the firstborn.” This refers to the oldest male child.

³ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

⁴ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

⁵ tn Heb “the face of the Lord [is] against the doers of evil to cut off from the earth memory of them.”

⁷ tn Heb “may they [that is, the sins mentioned in v. 14] be before the Lord continually.”

⁸ tn Heb “their memory.” The plural pronominal suffix probably refers back to the children mentioned in v. 13, and for clarity this has been specified in the translation.

⁹ tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

¹¹ tn Heb “cut off” (so NRSV); NAB “destroy”; NIV “banish.”