'Change' in the Bible
Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearer, because God had said, "If the people face war, they may change their minds and return to Egypt."
Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out with an evil intention to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your anger and change your mind about the calamity against your people.
Then he is to change his clothes, dressing himself with a different set of clothes, and take the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.
The LORD will change the rain on your land to powder and dust. It will come down from the sky until you are exterminated."
Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind, for he's not a man that he should change his mind."
"As your soul lives, your majesty, the king," the woman answered, "no one can divert anything left or right from what your majesty the king has spoken! As a matter of fact, it was your servant Joab! He was there, giving me precise orders about everything that your humble servant was to say. Your servant Joab did this, intending to change the outcome of this matter. Nevertheless, your majesty is wise, like the wisdom of the angel of God, to be aware of everything that's going on throughout the earth."
Nevertheless, they did not change course away from the sins of Jeroboam's household, by which he caused Israel to sin, but continued on that same course, with Asherah poles remaining in place in Samaria.
Repent! Let there be no injustice; Change your ways! My vindication is at stake.
If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,
You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
"But he is One who can change him? He does whatever he wants to do.
The one who despises those who are utterly wicked, but who honors the one who fears the LORD, who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not change,
I will not dishonor my covenant, because I will not change what I have spoken.
They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.
"Change your ways and your deeds, and I'll let you live in this place. Don't trust deceptive words like these, and say, "The Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD,'
but rather, truly change your ways and your deeds. If you truly practice justice between each person and his neighbor,
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you who are trained to do evil will also be able to do good.
I'll winnow them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land. I'll make them childless. I'll destroy my people, for they didn't change their ways.
But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I'll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it.
But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I'll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.
Perhaps they'll listen, and each of them will repent from his evil way. Then I'll change my mind about the disaster I'm planning to bring on them because of their evil deeds.
Now, change your habits and your deeds and obey the LORD your God, and the LORD will change his mind about the disaster that he told you about.
""I, the LORD have spoken. It will happen, because I'm going to do it. I won't hold back, have compassion, or change my mind. They'll judge you according to your ways and deeds,' declares the Lord GOD."
"The more they increased in number, the more they sinned against me, so I will change their glory into shame.
"Because I the LORD don't change; therefore you children of Jacob aren't destroyed."