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Repentance

(A complete reversal of one's attitude and values, i. e. a turning toward God)

Attributed to God—Ge 6:6,7; Ex 32:14; De 32:36; Jud 2:18; 1Sa 15:11,29,35; 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:15; Ps 106:45; 110:4; 135:14; Jer 15:6; 18:8,10; 26:3; 42:10; Joe 2:13; Am 7:3,6; Jon 3:9,10

The burden of the preaching

• Of John the Baptist
• —Mt 3
• Of Jesus
• —Mt 4:17; Mr 1:15

Exhortation to—Pr 1:23-33; Jer 7:3,5; 26:3; Ho 14:1-3; Am 5:4-6; Mt 3:2

Condition of God's favor—Le 26:40-42; 2Ch 7:14

Unavailing

• To Israel
• —Nu 14:39-45
• To Esau
• —Heb 12:16,17

UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO—Le 26:40-42; De 4:29-31; 10:16; 30:1-3,8-10; 32:29; 1Ki 8:33-50; 2Ch 6:36-39; 7:14; 30:6-9; Ne 1:9; Job 11:13-15; 22:23; 33:26-28; 34:31,32; 36:10; Ps 22:27; 34:14,18; 51:17; 95:7,8; 147:3; Pr 1:22,23; 9:6; 28:13; Isa 10:21; 22:12; 31:6; 44:22; 46:8; 55:6,7; 57:15; 59:20; 61:1,2; Jer 3:4,12-14,19; 4:1-4,14; 6:8,16; 7:5,7; 13:15,16; 18:8,11; 24:7; 25:5; 26:3,13; 31:9; 36:3,7; 50:4,5; Eze 7:16; 11:18-20; 12:3; 14:6; 16:61-63; 18:21-23,27,28,30-32; 20:43; 33:10-12,14-16,19; 36:31; 37:23; Da 4:27; Ho 2:7; 3:5; 5:15; 10:12; 12:6; 14:1,2; Joe 1:14; 2:12,13,15-18; Am 4:12; 5:6,15; Jon 3:8,9; Hag 1:7; Zec 1:3; 12:10; Mal 3:7; Mt 3:2,7,8; 4:17; 5:4; 9:13; Mr 1:4,15; 2:17; 6:12; Lu 3:3; 5:32; 6:21; 10:13; 13:1-5; 15:1-10; 18:10-14; 24:47; Ac 2:38,40; 3:19; 5:31; 8:22; 17:30; 20:21; 26:20; Ro 2:4; 11:23; 14:11; Eph 5:14; 2Ti 2:25; Heb 6:1; Jas 4:8-10; 1Jo 1:9; Re 2:5; 3:2,3,19

• See
• CONVICTION
• See
• PENITENCE
• See
• REMORSE
• See CONFESSION OF
• SIN,
• See FORGIVENESS OF
• SIN,

INSTANCES OF

• Joseph's brothers, of their maltreatment of Joseph
• —Ge 42:21; 50:17,18
• Pharaoh, of his hardness of heart
• —Ex 9:27; 10:16,17
• Balaam, of his spiritual blindness
• —Nu 22:34; with 22:24-35
• Israelites
• • Of worshiping the golden calf
  —Ex 33:3,4
  • Of their complaining because of lack of bread and water,
  when the plague of fiery serpents came upon them—Nu 21:4-7
  • When rebuked by an angel for not expelling the Canaanites
  —Jud 2:1-5
  • Of their idolatry, when afflicted by the Philistines
  —Jud 10:6-16; 1Sa 7:3-6
  • In asking for a king
  —1Sa 12:16-20
  • In the time of Asa, by the preaching of Azariah
  —2Ch 15:1-15
  • By the preaching of Oded
  —2Ch 28:9-15
  • Under the influence of Hezekiah
  —2Ch 30:11
• Achan, because of his theft
• —Jos 7:20
• Saul, at the rebuke of Samuel for not destroying the
• Amalekites—1Sa 15:24; with 15:6-31
• David, at the rebuke of Nathan, the prophet, for his sins of
• adultery and murder—2Sa 12:11,13; with 12:7-14
• See PENITENTIAL
• PSALMS,
• Rehoboam, when his kingdom was invaded, and Jerusalem was
• besieged—2Ch 12:1-12
• Hezekiah, at the time of his sickness
• —2Ch 32:26
• When reproved by the prophet Micah
• —Jer 26:18,19
• Ahab, when reproved by Elijah for Ahab's idolatry
• —1Ki 21:27; with 21:17-29
• Jehoahaz
• —2Ki 13:4
• Josiah, when he heard the law of God which had been
• discovered in the temple by Hilkiah—2Ki 22:11-20
• Manasseh, when he was carried away captive to Babylon by the
• king of Assyria—2Ch 33:12,13
• The Jews of the exile
• • At the dedication of the second temple
  —Ezr 6:21
  • Because of their idolatrous marriages
  —Ezr 10
  • Because of their oppressive usury
  —Ne 5:1-13
  • After hearing the law expounded by Ezra
  —Ne 8:1-12; 9:1-3
  • By the preaching of Haggai
  —Hag 1
• Jonah, after his punishment
• —Jon 2:2-9
• The Ninevites, by the preaching of Jonah
• —Jon 3:5-9
• The Jews, by the preaching of John the Baptist
• —Mt 3:6
• The woman who anointed Jesus with oil
• —Lu 7:37-48
• The disobedient son
• —Mt 21:29
• The Prodigal Son
• —Lu 15:17-21
• Peter, because of his denial of Jesus
• —Mt 26:75; Mr 14:72; Lu 22:62
• Judas
• —Mt 27:3-5; Ac 1:16,18
• The Ephesians, by the preaching of Paul
• —Ac 19:18

EXEMPLIFIED—Nu 21:7; 2Sa 24:10,17; 1Ch 21:17; 2Ch 29:6; Ezr 9:4,6,10,13,14; Ne 1:6,7; 9:16-37; Job 7:20; 9:20; 13:23; 40:4; 42:5; Ps 32:5; 38:3,4,18; 40:12; 41:4; 51:1-4,7-17; 69:5,10; 73:21,22; 106:6; 119:59,176; 130:1-3; Isa 6:5; 38:15,17; 59:12-15; 64:5-7; Jer 3:21,22,25; 8:14; 14:7,20; 31:18,19; La 3:40,41; Da 9:5-7; 10:12; Ho 6:1; 14:3,8; Jon 3:10; Mic 7:9; Lu 15:17-20; 1Co 15:9; 2Co 7:9-11; 1Pe 2:25

• See CONFESSION OF
• SIN,