Jonah 3

Jonah’s Preaching

1The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: # 3:1 Jnh 1:1 2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh # 3:2 Zph 2:13–15 and preach # 3:2 Jr 1:17; Ezk 2:7 the message that I tell you.” 3Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, # 3:3 Or was a great city to God,# 3:3 Gn 10:11–12; Jnh 1:2; 4:11 a three-day walk. 4Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, # 3:4 2Kg 18:26–28; Mt 12:41; Lk 11:32 “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ” 5Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast # 3:5 Dn 9:3; Jl 1:14 and dressed in sackcloth — from the greatest of them to the least.

6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, # 3:6 1Kg 21:27; Est 4:1–4; Jr 6:26; Ezk 27:30–31 and sat in ashes. 7Then he issued a decree # 3:7 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21 in Nineveh:

By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. # 3:8 Ps 130:1; Jnh 1:6,14 Each must turn from his evil ways # 3:8 Is 1:16–19; 55:6–7; Jr 18:11 and from his wrongdoing. # 3:8 Or injustice, or violence 9Who knows? # 3:9 2Sm 12:22; Jl 2:14 God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish. # 3:9 Jr 18:7–8

10God saw their actions — that they had turned from their evil ways # 3:10 1Kg 21:27–29; 2Kg 17:13; 2Ch 7:14; Jr 18:11; 31:18 — so God relented from the disaster # 3:10 Ex 32:14; Am 7:3,6 he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

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Yonah 3

1And the Devar Hashem came unto Yonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that ir hagedolah, and preach unto it the preaching that I give thee.

3So Yonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the Devar Hashem. Now Nineveh was an exceeding ir gedolah of a journey of shloshet yamim. 4And Yonah began to enter into the city one dayʼs journey, and he cried out and preached, and said, Yet arba'im yamim (40 days), and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5So the people of Nineveh had emunah in Elohim, and proclaimed a tzom, and put on sackcloth, from their gedolim even to their ketanim. 6For word came unto HaMelech of Nineveh, and he arose from his kisse, and he laid aside his royal robe, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of HaMelech and his gedolim, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not eat, nor drink mayim; 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto Elohim; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the chamas that is in their hands. 9Who can tell if HaElohim will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?

10And HaElohim saw their ma'asim, that they shavu (turned) from their derech hara'ah; and HaElohim relented of hara'ah, that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.

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