Jonah 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

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  • Deut 18:22 : 22 When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; 8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed. 9 And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it; 10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
  • Jonah 3:10 : 10 And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
  • 2 Kgs 20:1 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.
  • 2 Kgs 20:6 : 6 I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

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  • Jonah 3:1-3
    3 verses
    90%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

    2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

    3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

  • Jonah 1:1-8
    8 verses
    82%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

    2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

    3 And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

    4 And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.

    5 Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

    6 And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

    7 And they said to one another, Come, let us put this to the decision of chance and see on whose account this evil has come on us. So they did so, and Jonah was seen to be the man.

    8 Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?

  • Jonah 3:5-9
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    5 And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

    6 And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

    7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

    8 And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.

    9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

  • Nah 3:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

    8 Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

  • Matt 12:40-41
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    73%

    40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

    41 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

    2 And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

  • Jonah 4:4-11
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    4 And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

    5 Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.

    6 And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.

    7 But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.

    8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

    9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.

    10 And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;

    11 And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

  • Luke 11:32
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    32 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.

  • Nah 2:8
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    8 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

  • Luke 11:30
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    30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.

  • Nah 1:1
    69%

    1 The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

  • Jonah 1:14-15
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    14 So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

    15 So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

  • Jonah 2:10
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    10 But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.

  • Deut 9:25
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    25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

  • Zeph 2:13
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    13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

  • Matt 3:1-2
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    1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

    2 Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

  • Jonah 2:1
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    1 And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

  • Joel 2:12
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    12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

  • Gen 7:4
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    4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

  • Gen 18:29
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    29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

  • Ezek 4:6
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    6 And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.

  • Zeph 1:14
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    14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

  • Jer 4:8
    66%

    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.