Jonah 3
About Jonah Jonah tells of a prophet who ran from God's call and of God's mercy toward the city of Nineveh.
1And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,SelectedJonah 3:1Ask
2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.SelectedJonah 3:2Ask
3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.SelectedJonah 3:3Ask
4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.SelectedJonah 3:4Ask
5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.SelectedJonah 3:5Ask
6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.SelectedJonah 3:6Ask
7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:SelectedJonah 3:7Ask
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.SelectedJonah 3:8Ask
9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?SelectedJonah 3:9Ask
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.SelectedJonah 3:10Ask
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