Jonah 3:4

And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days — and Nineveh is overturned.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

5And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

Jeremiah 18:7The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

Jonah 3:10And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done [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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