Jonah 3:10
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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- Jeremiah 18:8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
- 1 Kings 21:27–29 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently. Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
- Exodus 32:14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.