repented. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. evil. Hebrew. ra. a `. App-44.
Araunah the Jebusite. Perhaps spared in the taking of Jebus. See note on 2 Samuel 5:8.
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2 Samuel 24:16
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunahc the Jebusite.