14 So the Lord relented(A) concerning the disaster He said He would bring on His people.

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11 “I regret that I made Saul king,(A) for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.”(B) So Samuel became angry and cried out to the Lord all night.(C)

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16 Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it,(A) but the Lord relented concerning the destruction(B) and said to the angel who was destroying(C) the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah[a] the Jebusite.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:16 = Ornan in 1Ch 21:15-28; 2Ch 3:1

The Lord relented concerning this.(A) “It will not happen,” He said.

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The Lord relented concerning this.(A) “This will not happen either,” said the Lord God.

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Who knows?(A) God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.(B)

10 Then God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways(C)—so God relented from the disaster(D) He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it.

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