Jonah 1:2; Jonah 3:2; Jonah 3:3; Jonah 3:4; Jonah 3:5; Jonah 3:6; Jonah 3:7; Jonah 4:11

Jonah 1:2

2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:2

2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

Jonah 3:3

3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.

Jonah 3:4

4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

Jonah 3:5

5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

Jonah 3:6

6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.

Jonah 3:7

7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

Jonah 4:11

11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”