Jonah 3:5

The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast. They all put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them down to the least of them.

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So 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.

In Context

4Jonah began to enter the city and after a day's journey he called out and said, “In forty days Nineveh will be overthrown.”

6Soon the news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose up from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:6So the Israelites wore no jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat became afraid and set himself to seek Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Jeremiah 31:34Then each man will no longer teach his neighbor, 2 or a man teach his brother and say, 'Know Yahweh!' 1 For all of them will know me, 2 from the smallest of them to the greatest 2 —this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 for I will forgive their iniquity 2 and will no longer call their sins to mind.” 1

Jeremiah 42:1Then all the army commanders and Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached Jeremiah the prophet.

Daniel 9:3I turned my face to the Lord God, to seek him with prayer and requests, with fasting, wearing sackcloth, and sitting in ashes.

Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, 1 “Return to me with all your heart. 1 Fast, weep, and mourn.” 1

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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