1 Kings 20:30-31

30And the rest fled into the city of aAphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left.

Ben-hadad also fled and entered ban inner chamber in the city.
31And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us cput sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 7:3-4

The Syrians Flee

3Now there were four men who were lepers
Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
eat the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?
4If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

12And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God fand humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13He prayed to him, and gGod was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. hThen Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

2 Chronicles 33:19

19And his prayer, and how iGod was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites jon which he built high places and set up the kAsherim and the images, before lhe humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai

Psalms 32:5

5 I nacknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I owill confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.  Selah

Psalms 116:3-7

3 pThe snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4Then qI called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5 rGracious is the Lord, and srighteous;
our God is tmerciful.
6The Lord preserves uthe simple;
when vI was brought low, he saved me.
7Return, O my soul, to your wrest;
for the Lord has xdealt bountifully with you.
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