2 Kings 22:19
22:19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit
and humbled yourself before the
Lord when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people.
You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the
Lord.
2 Kings 22:2
22:2 He did what the
Lord approved
and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;
he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Kings 1:1
Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders
1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.
Jeremiah 36:24
36:24 Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.
Joel 2:13
2:13 Return to the Lord your God,
for he is merciful and compassionate,
slow to anger and boundless in loyal love – often relenting from calamitous punishment.
Jonah 3:6-7
3:6 When the news
reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
3:7 He issued a proclamation and said,
“In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.