Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

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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

3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”

Jeremiah 18:7At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,

Jonah 3:10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

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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