What Does Jehovah's Forgiveness Mean for You?

"Jehovah[is] a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger . . . abundant in loving-kindness, pardoning error and transgression and sin." - EXODUS 34:6, 7. 

IN THE days of Nehemiah, a group of Levites acknowledged in public prayer that their forefathers had repeatedly "refused to listen" to Jehovah's commandments. Again and again, however,  Jehovah proved to be "a God of acts of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness." To those repatriated exiles in Nehemiah's time, Jehovah was continuing to show undeserved kindness. - Nehemiah 9:16,17.

On a personal level, each of us might ask. 'What does Jehovah's forgiveness mean for me? To help answer this important question, let us examine God's dealings with two men who benefited from Jehovah's forgiveness-the two kings David and Mannasseh.

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