Jonah 3:10
And God sawe their workes that they turned from their euill wayes: and God repented of the euill that he had said that he woulde doe vnto them, and he did it not.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
9Who can tell if God will turne, and repent and turne away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?
Cross References
1 Kings 21:27Nowe when Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth vpon him and fasted, and lay in sackecloth and went softely.
Job 33:27He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,
Jeremiah 18:7I will speake suddenly against a nation or against a kingdome to plucke it vp, and to roote it out and to destroy it.
Jeremiah 31:18I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God.
Amos 7:3So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.
Jonah 4:2And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.
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 →