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Jonah 3

Nineveh Repents

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Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

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"Arise, go to  aNineveh the great city and  bproclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."

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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was  1an  aexceedingly great city, a three days' walk.

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Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he  acried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown."

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Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a  afast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

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When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him,  acovered himself with sackcloth and sat on the  1ashes.

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He issued a  aproclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water.

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"But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let  1men  acall on God earnestly that each may  bturn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in  2his hands.

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aWho knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."

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When God saw their deeds, that they  aturned from their wicked way, then  bGod relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would  1bring upon them. And He did not do it.



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