And he said unto him, see, I have accepted thee
concerning
this thing also
Accepted thy prayer and granted thy request, as well as in other
things; shown grace and mercy to thee: or, "have lifted up thy
face" F5; alluding to the custom of the
eastern countries, where persons, when they come into the
presence of their superiors, used to prostrate their faces to the
ground; when, as a token of their acceptance of them, and good
will to them, they used to order them to be lifted up, or them to
lift up their faces, and stand before them:
that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast
spoken;
for, though he had not in express words petitioned that the city
might be spared, yet he had tacitly done it, insomuch as he had
requested he might flee unto it, where he could not have been
safe had it been destroyed.