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Jonah 3 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Nineveh Repents

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2 - “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was [fn]an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his robe from himself, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the [fn]dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he issued a proclamation, and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: No person, animal, herd, or flock is to taste anything. They are not to eat, or drink water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - “But every person and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and people are to call on God vehemently, and they are to turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - “Who knows, God may turn and relent, and turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:10 -

When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, then God relented of the disaster which He had declared He would [fn]bring on them. So He did not do it.

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit a great city to God
Or ashes
Lit do to
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