They humbled themselves; which though they did but forcedly, yet God was pleased so far to regard it, as to mitigate their calamity. My wrath shall not be poured out; I will give some stop to the course of my wrath, which was ready to be poured forth upon them to their utter destruction.
Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 12:7
2 Chronicles 12:7
7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them somea deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.