“Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.”
The statement that Hezekiah and the people repented and God repented of the evil shows that the precedent includes not merely the prophets' survival but the people's reformation and judgment's reversal. The cause-and-effect relationship (repentance leads to God's repentance) shows the point of prophecy. The positive outcome of accepting the harsh message provides incentive for the current generation to respond similarly. The verse shows that God's willingness to reverse judgment is not merely theoretical but historically demonstrated.
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