And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and (f) as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he (g) repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(f) Read (2 Samuel 24:16).
(g) When God draws back his plagues, he seems to repent, read (Genesis 6:6).