11 And Moses proceeded to soften the face of Jehovah his God+ and to say: “Why, O Jehovah, should your anger+ blaze against your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

12 so I said to myself,*+ ‘Now the Phi·lisʹtines will come down against me at Gilʹgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not softened.’ So I compelled myself+ and went offering up the burnt sacrifice.”

6 The king now answered and said to the man of the [true] God: “Soften, please, the face of Jehovah your God and pray in my behalf that my hand may be restored to me.”+ At this the man of the [true] God softened+ the face of Jehovah, so that the king’s hand was restored to him, and it came to be as at first.+

19 Did Hez·e·kiʹah the king of Judah and all those of Judah by any means put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah and proceed to soften the face of Jehovah,+ so that Jehovah got to feeling regret for the calamity that he had spoken against them?+ So we are working up a great calamity against our souls.*+