29He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
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Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. …
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. …
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-32)As Christ instructed his disciples by parables, which made the instructions the more easy, so sometimes he convinced his adversaries by parables, which bring reproofs more close, and make men, or ever they are aware, to reprove themselves. Thus Nathan convinced David by a parable (2 Sam. 22:1), and the woman of Tekoa surprised him in like manner, 2 Sam. 14:2: Reproving parables are appeals to the…
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