Jonah 3:4

Jonah went into the city, walking for one day, shouting out, “In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed!”

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In The King James Version

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

In Context

3Jonah did what God told him. He set out and went to Nineveh, a city that was so big it took three days to walk through it.

5The people of Nineveh believed in God. They announced a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.”

Jeremiah 18:7At one time it could happen that I announce that a nation or a kingdom is going to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jonah 3:10God saw what they had done—that they had given up their evil ways—so he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 3:2-5

Jonah's Mission Renewed; The Prophet's Mission to Nineveh. ( b. c. 840.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. We have here… Read the whole commentary →

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