Jonah 3

1Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,Cross-references: Jonah 1:1 · John 21:15

2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”Cross-references: Jer 1:17 · Jer 15:19 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:17 · Jonah 1:2 · Jonah 3:3 · +3 more

3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.Cross-references: Gen 22:3 · Gen 30:8 · Ps 36:6 · Ps 80:10 · Matt 21:28 · 2Tim 4:11

4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”Cross-references: Deut 18:22 · 2Ki 20:1 · 2Ki 20:6 · Jer 18:7 · Jonah 3:10

5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · 2Chr 20:3 · Ezra 8:21 · Jer 31:34 · Jer 36:9 · Jer 42:1 · +10 more

6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Cross-references: Esth 4:1 · Job 2:8 · Job 42:6 · Ps 2:10 · Jer 6:26 · Jer 13:18 · +8 more

7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;Cross-references: 2Chr 20:3 · Ezra 8:21 · Joel 1:18 · Joel 2:15 · Jonah 3:5 · Rom 8:20

8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.Cross-references: Ps 130:1 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 55:6 · Isa 58:6 · Isa 59:6 · Jer 18:11 · +10 more

9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”Cross-references: 2Sam 12:22 · Ps 106:45 · Joel 2:13 · Amos 5:15 · Jonah 1:6 · Luke 15:18

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.Cross-references: Ex 32:14 · 1Ki 21:27 · Job 33:27 · Jer 18:8 · Jer 31:18 · Joel 2:13 · +5 more