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    Jonah · 10 verses

    Jonah 3

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    Nineveh's repentance reaches the sheepfold: the king orders every man and beast to fast, go without drink, and wear sackcloth.

    Jonah reaches Ninevehvv. 1–4

    The word of the LORD comes to Jonah a second time, and this time Jonah goes. Nineveh is an exceedingly great city, requiring three days to cross; Jonah gets only as far as the first day before delivering a sermon of magnificent brevity: forty days, and the city will be overturned.

    The city turnsvv. 5–10

    The Ninevites believe God and begin public repentance, from the greatest to the least. When the news reaches the king, he leaves his throne and royal robe for sackcloth and ashes, then extends the order to livestock: no eating, no drinking, and sackcloth for beasts as well as people. The proclamation asks whether God may turn from his anger; God sees that they have turned from their evil ways, and the threatened disaster is not carried out. The text gives no reason for the city's immediate, complete response beyond the brief warning itself.

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    1. Jonah 3:1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

    2. Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

    3. Jonah 3:3This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

    4. Jonah 3:4On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

    5. Jonah 3:5And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

    6. Jonah 3:6When 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.

    7. Jonah 3:7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

    8. Jonah 3:8Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

    9. Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

    10. Jonah 3:10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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    • 10Jeremiah 18:8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
    • 101 Kings 21:27–29When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
    • 5Luke 11:32The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
    • 10Exodus 32:14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
    • 10Amos 7:6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
    • 10Luke 15:20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
    • 10Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
    • 4Deuteronomy 18:22When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
    • 5Daniel 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
    • 92 Samuel 12:22David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
    • 10Jeremiah 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
    • 4Jeremiah 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
    • 5Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
    • 5Joel 2:12–17“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
    • 10Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
    • 6Esther 4:1–4When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.

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