Jonah 3:10
God saw what they had done—that they had given up their evil ways—so he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.
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9Who knows? God may change his mind and relent. He may decide not to destroy us in his fierce anger.”
Cross References
1 Kings 21:27As soon as Ahab heard this message, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He even went to bed in sackcloth, and walked around repentantly.
Job 33:27They sing, and tell others, ‘I sinned, I distorted what is right, but it did not do me any good.
Jeremiah 18:7At one time it could happen that I announce that a nation or a kingdom is going to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
Jeremiah 31:18Don't worry, I've heard Ephraim's groans, saying, “You disciplined me really hard as if I was a calf that hadn't been trained. Please bring me back, let me return, for you are the Lord my God.
Amos 7:3So the Lord changed his mind. “It won't happen,” said the Lord.
Jonah 4:2He prayed to the Lord and told him, “Lord, wasn't this what I said when I was back home? That's why I ran away to Tarshish in the first place! For I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, very patient and full of kindhearted love, who relents from sending disaster.
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 →