Jeremiah 42:10 - Exposition

Build you, and not pull you down, etc. Some of Jeremiah's favourite phrases (see on Jeremiah 24:6 ). I repent me. And yet in 1 Samuel 15:29 we read that "Israel's Trust … is not a man that he should repent." The key to the discrepancy may be found in Psalms 18:25 , Psalms 18:26 , "With the pious thou showest thyself pious … and with the froward thou showest thyself froward." There is no change in the nature or purpose of God, but only in his conduct towards man. The term "repent" is, therefore, only used analogically.