1 La palabra del Señor llegó a Jonás por segunda vez: 2 «Levántate, ve a Nínive, esa gran ciudad, y proclama el mensaje que te he dado». 3 Jonás se levantó y fue a Nínive, como el Señor había dicho. Nínive era una ciudad tan grande que se necesitaban tres días para recorrerla de un extremo al otro. 4 Jonás comenzó a recorrer la ciudad. Después de caminar un día, proclamó: «Dentro de cuarenta días Nínive será destruida». 5 Los habitantes de Nínive creyeron en Dios. Fijaron un tiempo de ayuno y se vistieron de tela áspera, desde el mayor hasta el menor. 6 La noticia llegó al rey de Nínive. Él se levantó de su trono, se quitó la túnica, se cubrió de tela áspera y se sentó en el polvo. 7 Mandó anunciar en Nínive: «Por orden del rey y de sus hombres importantes, ninguna persona ni animal, ni ganado ni rebaño, probará nada. No comerán ni beberán agua. 8 Que las personas y los animales se cubran de tela áspera y clamen a Dios con fuerza. Que todos se aparten de su mal camino y de sus actos violentos. 9 ¿Quién sabe si Dios cambiará su decisión y apartará su ira ardiente, para que no muramos?». 10 Dios vio lo que hicieron y cómo se apartaron de su mal camino. Cambió su decisión acerca de la desgracia que había anunciado y no se la causó.
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Nineveh
Capital of the brutal Assyrian Empire. Jonah's reluctant mission brought it to repentance; Nahum later prophesied its fall, which came in 612 BC.
Cited in the guide: Jonah 3:3; Nahum 1:1; 2 Kings 19:36
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- 1 Jonah 1:1
- 2 Jeremiah 1:17; Ezekiel 2:7; Jonah 3:3; Jonah 1:2; John 5:14
- 3 Matthew 21:28–29; Psalm 80:10; Genesis 22:3
- 4 Deuteronomy 18:22; Jeremiah 18:7–10; 2 Kings 20:1; Jonah 3:10; 2 Kings 20:6
- 5 Luke 11:32; Daniel 9:3; Matthew 12:41; Joel 2:12–17; 2 Chronicles 20:3
- 6 James 4:6–10; Esther 4:1–4; Job 2:8; Daniel 9:3; Luke 10:13
- 7 2 Chronicles 20:3; Joel 2:15–16; Joel 1:18; Jonah 3:5; Ezra 8:21
- 8 Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 55:6–7; Jonah 1:6; Jonah 1:14; Ezekiel 18:21–24
- 9 2 Samuel 12:22; Joel 2:13–14; Psalm 106:45; Jonah 1:6; Luke 15:18–20
- 10 Jeremiah 18:8; 1 Kings 21:27–29; Exodus 32:14; Amos 7:6; Luke 15:20
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… wrought in Jonah's case, as the Scripture says of them, "And they returned each from his evil way, and the unrighteousness which was in their hands, saying, Who knoweth if God will repent, and turn away His anger from us, and we shall not perish?" --so also, from the beginning, did God permit man to be swallowed up by the …
But some one may say, "How shall I know whether the prophet Jonah said to the Ninevites, Yet three days and Nineveh shall be overthrown,' or forty days?" For who does not see that the prophet could not say both, when he was sent to terrify the city by the threat of imminent ruin?
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