The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Exercise of the Prerogative of Mercy

“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. …