Jonah 3:10
And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
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1 Kings 21:27Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
Job 33:27He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Jeremiah 18:7Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 31:18Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Amos 7:3The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
Jonah 4:2And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 3:6-10
Nineveh's Repentance. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not… Read the whole commentary →