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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

cf. 8:21; Dt. 31:21; Is. 26:3 (Ps. 103:14?), 1 Ch. 28:9; 29:18; v.i.—6. The anthropopathy which attributes to Yahwe regret (וַיִּנָּחֶם) and vexation (וַיִּתְעַצֵּב) because He had created man is unusually strong. Although in the sense of mere change of purpose, the former is often ascribed to God (Ex 32:14; Jer. 18:7, 8; 26:3, 13; Jl. 2:13; Jon. 3:10 etc.), the cases are few where divine regret for accomplished action is expressed (1 Sa. 15:11). The whole representation was felt to be inadequate
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