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Dictionary of Bible Themes

Scripture gives examples of individuals and peoples who have turned to God in conversion.

Isaiah 19:22

Examples of conversion in the OT

Peoples who turned to God

Jonah 3:5-10

Egypt

Nineveh

2 Kings 5:15

Individuals who turned to God

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

Naaman

Daniel 4:34-37

Manasseh

Jonah 1:16

Nebuchadnezzar

sailors on board ship with Jonah

John 4:42

Examples of conversion in the NT

Examples of people in general

Acts 2:41

people of Sychar

Acts 8:12

3,000 people on the day of Pentecost

Acts 9:35

Samaritans

Acts 15:3

people of Lydda and Sharon

Luke 15:18

Gentile converts

Examples of individual converts

Luke 19:8-9

the prodigal son

Acts 8:35-38

Zacchaeus

Acts 9:3-18

the Ethiopian eunuch

Paul:

Acts 10:44-48

pp Ac 22:6-11

pp Ac 26:12-18

Acts 13:12

Cornelius

Acts 16:14-15

the proconsul, Sergius Paulus

Acts 16:29-34

Lydia

the Philippian jailer

Hosea 3:5

The prophetic vision of the future conversion of Israel and the nations

See also

Israel's turning back to God

Jeremiah 50:4-5
Hosea 11:10-11
Romans 11:26
Jeremiah 16:19

See also

The conversion of the nations

Psalms 22:27-28
Isaiah 2:3
Zechariah 14:16

See also

pp Mic 4:2

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