Jonah 3
3
Jonah Preaches at Nineveh
1#Jnh 1:1The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2#Jer 1:17; Eze 2:7“Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three-day journey across. 4Jonah began to enter the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “In forty days’ time, Nineveh will be overthrown!” 5#Lk 11:32; 2Ch 20:3So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. And everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.
6#Job 2:8; Est 4:1–4When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7#2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh:
“By decree of the king and his nobles:
No man or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not eat or drink water. 8#Jnh 1:6; Isa 1:16–19Both man and animals shall cover themselves with sackcloth and cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. 9#2Sa 12:22Who knows? God may relent and change His mind. He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
10#Jer 18:8; Am 7:6When God saw their actions, that they turned from their evil ways, He changed His mind about the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
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Jonah 3
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Nineveh Repents
1Now the word of Adonai came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2“Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am telling you.”
3So Jonah rose and went to Nineveh according to the word of Adonai. Now Nineveh was a great city to God—the length of a three day journey.
4So Jonah began to come into the city for one day’s journey, and he cried out saying: “Another forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5Then the people of Nineveh believed God and called for a fast and wore sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
7He made a proclamation saying: “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, herd or flock, may taste anything. They must not graze nor drink water.
8But cover man and beast with sackcloth. Let them cry out to God with urgency. Let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence in his hands.
9Who knows? God may turn and relent, and turn back from his burning anger, so that we may not perish.”
10When God saw their deeds—that they turned from their wicked ways—God relented from the calamity that He said He would do to them, and did not do it.
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