Jonah 3:4

And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

3And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was + 3:3 Lit. a great city to God. Acts 7:20. an exceeding great city, of about three days' journey.

5And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days was Ezekias sick even to death. And the prophet Esaias the son of Amos came in to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give charge to your household; for you + 20:1 Gr. die. shall die, and not live.

Jeremiah 18:7If I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;

Jonah 3:10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

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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