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THE SECOND BOOK OF
SAMUEL
OTHERWISE CALLED
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 24
  16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord arepented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: bstay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

Footnotes
16a
The Heb. root means ‘to sigh,’ therefore ‘to feel sorrow.’
Gen. 6: 6.
  6 And it arepented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it bgrieved him at his heart.
1 Sam. 15: 11.
  11 aIt brepenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
Joel 2: 13.
  13 And arend your heart, and not your garments, band turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great ckindness, and drepenteth him of the evil.
1 Chr. 21: 15.
  15 aAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he 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.
JST 2 Sam. 24: 16 . . . the Lord said unto him, Stay now thine hand, it is enough; for the people repented, and the Lord stayed the hand of the angel, that he destroyed not the people . . .
b
Alma 10: 23.
  23 But it is by the aprayers of the righteous that ye are spared; now therefore, if ye will bcast out the righteous from among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the ctime is soon at hand except ye repent.
Moro. 9: 14.
  14 How can we expect that God will astay his hand in judgment against us?
D&C 38: 22 (22, 33).
  22 Wherefore, hear my voice and afollow me, and you shall be a bfree people, and ye shall have no laws but my laws when I come, for I am your clawgiver, and what can stay my hand?
D&C 39: 16.
  16 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, that the people in Ohio call upon me in much faith, thinking I will astay my hand in judgment upon the nations, but I cannot bdeny my word.
Moses 7: 51.
  51 And the Lord could not withhold; and he acovenanted with Enoch, and sware unto him with an oath, that he would stay the bfloods; that he would call upon the children of Noah;