 | 1836 - 462 lehte
...a fast, and put on saekcloth, from the greatest of them 6 even to the least of them. For the matter came unto the king of Nineveh ; and he arose from his throne, and put away his robe from him, and covered himself with saek7 cloth, and sat on ashes. And it was proclaimed... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 550 lehte
...heathens. When Jonah had declared, " Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown," the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them unto the least. " For the king of Nineveh arose from his throne, and laic! his robe from him, and covered... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 lehte
...denunciation alarmed them 1; WM influential on them all. Insomuch that "the people of Nineveh töcved God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest ! them even to the least," Jonah iii. 5. " They believed ; " hence we learn 'rue nature of believing... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 lehte
...vassals. Therefore, the Assyrians practised humiliation — but it was public and religious — "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...from the greatest of them even to the least of them." Thus the Assyrians fasted, not only in a common acceptation, but strictly according to our definition.... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 562 lehte
...nothing,) but a personal reformation, pervading every rank and description of men in that community. " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackloth from the greatest of them even to the least." The king of Nineveh published, we read, a decree... | |
 | 1839 - 966 lehte
...into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them." " Who can tell," (said the decree of the king ordaining the fast,) " if God... | |
 | Arthur Philip Perceval - 1839 - 380 lehte
...was time, 12 to appease His wrath, and excite His pity and compassion. In the words of the Prophet, " the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest even unto the least of them." For the king's commandment was, that they should fast and be covered... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 lehte
...suspended or revoked according to their moral conduct. In this instance, it was thus changed; " for the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least; and they cried mightily unto God, and turned every one from their evil way, and from the violence that... | |
 | 1841 - 406 lehte
...into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them." " Who can tell," (said the decree of the king ordaining the fast,) " if God... | |
 | Simon Patrick - 1841 - 248 lehte
...part of Repentance; and as a means to turn away God's anger ; as we may gather from the Ninevites, who proclaimed a Fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least ; hoping God would turn from His fierce anger denounced against them, if they turned every man from... | |
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So 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. 
