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Jonah 3:4

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Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

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Jonah 3:4 in other translations

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

Jonah 3:4 · American Standard Version

Jonah 3:4 in context

  1. 2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
  2. 3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
  3. 4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
  4. 5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
  5. 6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.