Intercession: Answered: After the Israelites had Made the Golden Calf

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? …

So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves. …

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. …

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.