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Jonah 3:5

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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.

So the people {H582} of Nineveh {H5210} believed {H539} God {H430}, and proclaimed {H7121} a fast {H6685}, and put {H3847} on sackcloth {H8242}, from the greatest {H1419} of them even to the least {H6996} of them.

when the people of Ninveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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Cross-References

  • Luke 11:32 (11 votes)

    The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here.

  • Matthew 12:41 (7 votes)

    The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here.

  • Daniel 9:3 (6 votes)

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

  • Joel 2:12 (6 votes)

    ¶ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

  • Joel 2:17 (6 votes)

    Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?

  • Joel 1:14 (5 votes)

    ¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land [into] the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

  • 2 Chronicles 20:3 (4 votes)

    And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.