Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
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Gill's Exposition
Who knoweth if he will return and repent,.... Which some understand of man, and of his returning and repentance; either thus whosoever he be that knows the ways of repentance, he will return, and God…
Barnes' Notes
Who knoweth if He will return - God has promised forgiveness of sins and of eternal punishment to those who turn to Him with their whole heart. Of this, then, there could be no doubt. But He has not…
We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the foregoing verses: Therefore now turn you to the Lord. 1. "Thus you must answer…
Cambridge Bible
Who knoweth if he will lit. Who knoweth? he will…, i.e. Peradventure he will…, or (R.V.) Who knoweth whether he will not …? The same idiom in 2Sa 12:22, and (in the same phrase as here) Jon 3:9.
turn…
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