Jonah 3:10

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way: and God repented of the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

In Context

9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

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Cross References

Job 33:27He shall sing among men, and say, “I sinned; I acted perversely; Yet hath he not requited me for it:

Jeremiah 18:7Whenever I speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, That I will pluck it up, cast it down, or destroy it,

Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, Like a steer not broken. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, For thou, O Jehovah, art my God!

Amos 7:3Jehovah repented of this; It shall not be, said Jehovah.

Jonah 4:2And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Ah! Jehovah, was not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy, and that thou repentest of a threatened 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 →

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