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مزامير 106:45
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
And he: Psalms 105:8, Leviticus 26:40-42, 2 Kings 13:23, Luke 1:71, Luke 1:72
repented: Psalms 90:13, Psalms 135:14, Exodus 32:14, Deuteronomy 32:36, Judges 2:18, 2 Samuel 24:16, Hosea 11:8, Amos 7:3, Amos 7:6
to the: Psalms 51:1, Psalms 69:16, Isaiah 63:7, Lamentations 3:32
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - repented Genesis 9:15 - remember Exodus 2:24 - remembered Exodus 3:6 - hid Exodus 6:5 - I have remembered Exodus 32:12 - repent Leviticus 26:42 - will I Numbers 14:2 - murmured Numbers 14:19 - and as thou Deuteronomy 30:3 - then the Judges 10:16 - his soul Judges 16:22 - the hair Ezra 9:9 - yet our God Ezra 9:13 - hast given us Nehemiah 9:19 - in thy Psalms 25:6 - Remember Psalms 31:16 - save Psalms 74:20 - Have Psalms 98:3 - remembered Psalms 106:7 - multitude Psalms 111:5 - he will Psalms 119:49 - Remember Jeremiah 14:21 - disgrace Jeremiah 18:8 - I will Jeremiah 42:10 - for I Jeremiah 42:12 - General Lamentations 3:22 - of Ezekiel 16:60 - I will remember Joel 2:13 - and repenteth Jonah 3:9 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he remembered for them his covenant,.... At Sinai, according to Aben Ezra; rather that made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; see Psalms 105:8, not their covenant who promised to hear and do all that the Lord commanded, and did it not; but his covenant, his promise of giving them the good land, and settling them in it: the Lord is ever mindful of the covenant of his grace for his people, for their good; he remembers the promises he has made, where they are in Christ; and so as to fulfil and apply them; he remembers the blessings of it, the sure mercies of David, and gives them; he remembers for whom it is made, and never forgets them; he remembers with whom it is made, with his Son, the surety, messenger, and Mediator of it; he remembers that he is their covenant God and Father, and will be so for evermore; he remembers his lovingkindness, which has been ever of old, which is the source and foundation of it.
And repented according to the multitude of his mercies; his mercies temporal and spiritual are many; and there is an abundance of mercy displayed especially in spiritual ones, in redemption, in regeneration, and in the forgiveness of sin. Or "according to the abundance of his grace", or "gracious benefits" e; there is an abundance of grace in his heart, in his Son, in his covenant, in salvation by Christ, and in every part of it; and which appears at conversion, as superabundant; and by this multitude of mercy, and abundance of grace, he is moved to "repent". This is sometimes denied of him; and indeed he never repents so as to change his mind, to alter his purposes, to revoke his promises or his gifts, these are all without repentance; but he sometimes changes his ways and his works, his conduct in Providence, and the course of it; and then he may be said to repent of the evil he threatened to do, or was doing, when he puts a stop to it; and instead of that bestows favours and blessings.
e כרב חסדיו "secundum amplitudinem, seu multitudinem gratiarum suarum", Cocceius, Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And he remembered for them his covenant - His solemn promises made to their fathers. He remembered that covenant in their behalf; or, on account of that, he came and blessed them. He had made gracious promises to the patriarchs; he had promised to be the God of their posterity; he had his own great purposes to accomplish through their nation in the distant future; and on these accounts, he came and blessed them.
And repented - He averted impending judgments. He checked and arrested the calamities which he was bringing upon them for their sins. He acted toward them as though his mind had been changed; as though he was sorry for what he was doing. The word “repent” can be applied to God in no other sense than this. It cannot be applied to him in the sense that he felt or admitted that he had done wrong; or that he had made a mistake; or that he had changed his mind or purposes; or that he intended to enter on a new course of conduct; but it may be applied to him in the sense that his treatment of people is “as if” he had changed his mind, or “as if” he were sorry for what he had done: that is, a certain course of things which had been commenced, would be arrested and changed to meet existing circumstances, because “they” had changed - though all must have been foreseen and purposed in his eternal counsels.
According to the multitude of his mercies - The greatness of his mercy; the disposition of his nature to show mercy; the repeated instances in which he had shown mercy in similar circumstances.