And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s [a]journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

So the people of Nineveh [b]believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them.

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:4 He went forward one day in the city, and preached, and so he continued till the city was converted.
  2. Jonah 3:5 For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God to denounce his judgments against them.

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