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Jonah 3

King James Version · 10 verses · 212 cross-references linking it to 117 other chapters

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  1. 1And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,7 cross-references: Jonah 1:1, John 21:15–17
  2. 2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.24 cross-references: Ezekiel 2:7, Jeremiah 1:17, Jonah 1:2, Zephaniah 2:13–15, Jeremiah 15:19–21
  3. 3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.11 cross-references: Genesis 22:3, Psalms 80:10, Matthew 21:28–29, Genesis 30:8, Psalms 36:6
  4. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.16 cross-references: Deuteronomy 18:22, Jeremiah 18:7–10, Jonah 3:10, 2 Kings 20:1, 2 Kings 20:6
  5. 5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.37 cross-references: Luke 11:32, Matthew 12:41, Daniel 9:3, Joel 2:12–17, Joel 1:14
  6. 6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.32 cross-references: James 4:6–10, Esther 4:1–4, Daniel 9:3, Job 2:8, James 1:9–10
  7. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:11 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 20:3, Jonah 3:5, Joel 1:18, Joel 2:15–16, Ezra 8:21
  8. 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.25 cross-references: Isaiah 55:6–7, Jonah 1:6, Ezekiel 18:21–24, Isaiah 1:16–19, Jonah 1:14
  9. 9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?28 cross-references: 2 Samuel 12:22, Joel 2:13–14, Psalms 106:45, Jonah 1:6, Luke 15:18–20
  10. 10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.27 cross-references: Jeremiah 18:8, Luke 15:20, 1 Kings 21:27–29, Amos 7:6, Luke 11:32

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