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22 lines
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Jonah's Preaching
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# Chapter 3
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1. The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
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2. "Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you."
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3. Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord's command.
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Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk.
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4. Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, "In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!"
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5. Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth--from the greatest of them to the least.
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6. When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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7. Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:
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By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
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8. Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.
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9. Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
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10. God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
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