 | George Truesdale Flanders - 1847 - 312 lehte
...The meaning of this is, that the whole number spoken of should die. Again: "So the people of Ninevah believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth...from the greatest of them even to the least of them. Jon. iii. 5. This embraced all the Ninevites in the city, and of none others did the sacred penman... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 lehte
...city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,... | |
 | J. Hyles - 1982 - 260 lehte
...and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. " — Nehemiah 1:4. "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...the greatest of them even to the least of them"— Jonah 3:5. "And when he hod fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. " —... | |
 | Abba Solomon Eban - 1984 - 376 lehte
...personal responsibility opened the door to repentance and communal salvation, as in the Book of Jonah: So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...from the greatest of them even to the least of them. . . . And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil,... | |
 | Peter C. Craigie - 1984 - 260 lehte
...cried, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" 5And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. Then tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed... | |
 | 1987 - 268 lehte
...cried, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented... | |
 | M. Conrad Hyers - 1987 - 148 lehte
...poorest sermon becomes the world's most successful sermon. "And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them" (3:5). Even the king— to whom, if to anyone, the message should have been delivered... | |
 | Lainie Blum Cogan, Judy Weiss - 2002 - 662 lehte
...and to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8) • "And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them." (Jonah 3:5) • "Let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." (Amos 5:24)... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 lehte
...forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" Immediately, "the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them." The king, hearing what the people had done, did the same, covering himself with... | |
 | Gail Twersky Reimer, Judith A. Kates - 1997 - 372 lehte
...'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.' 'And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 'And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe 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. 
