Jonah 3

Jonah Preaches in Nineveh

Nineveh Repents

1Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:

2“Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.”

3So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh just as the word of the Lord had commanded. Now Nineveh was a great city to God. It required a three-day walk.[#3:3 This apparently means it would take Jonah three days to preach throughout the various sections of the city, but the meaning is uncertain.]

4Jonah walked through the city for a day, and he called out, “Forty more days and Nineveh is going to be overthrown!”

5The men of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on 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, and sat in ashes.

7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh.

By the decree of the king and his leading officials:

10When God saw their actions, that they had turned from their evil way, God relented from the disaster which he said he would bring on them, and he did not carry it out.

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