Jonah 3:4

So Jonah began to enter into the city, one day’s journey,—and he cried out and said—Yet forty days, and, Nineveh, is to be overthrown!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 his way unto Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh,—Nineveh, being a city great before God, of three days’ journey.

5And the people of Nineveh believed in God,—and proclaimed a fast, and clothed themselves in sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even unto the least of them.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days, was Hezekiah sick, unto death,—and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came unto him, and said unto him—Thus, saith Yahweh Set in order thy house, for, about to die, thou, art, and shalt not recover.

Jeremiah 18:7The moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom,—to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;

Jonah 3:10And God saw their doings, that they turned from their wicked way,—and God was grieved over the calamity which he had spoken of executing upon them, and executed 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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