Jonah 3:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.

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  • Esth 4:1-4 : 1 Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter. 2 And he came euen before the Kings gate, but he might not enter within the Kings gate, being clothed with sackecloth. 3 And in euery prouince, and place, whither the Kings charge and his commission came, there was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping and mourning, and many laye in sackecloth and in ashes. 4 Then Esters maydes and her eunuches came and tolde it her: therefore the Queene was very heauie, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackecloth from him, but he receiued it not.
  • Job 2:8 : 8 And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
  • Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes. 31 They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.
  • Jas 4:6-9 : 6 But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble. 7 Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you. 8 Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe nere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse. 10 Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.
  • Matt 11:21 : 21 Woe be to thee, Chorazin: Woe be to thee, Bethsaida: for if ye great workes, which were done in you, had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackecloth and ashes.
  • Luke 10:13 : 13 Woe be to thee, Chorazin: woe be to thee, Beth-saida: for if the miracles had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, which haue bene done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in sackecloth and ashes.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 Let the brother of lowe degree reioyce in that he is exalted: 10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.
  • Ps 2:10-12 : 10 Be wise nowe therefore, ye Kings: be learned ye Iudges of the earth. 11 Serue the Lorde in feare, and reioyce in trembling. 12 Kisse the sonne, least he be angry, and ye perish in the way, when his wrath shall suddenly burne. blessed are all that trust in him.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.
  • Jer 13:18 : 18 Say vnto the King and to the Queene, Humble yourselues, sit downe, for the crowne of your glorye shall come downe from your heads.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, neither weepe ye: for the house of Aphrah roule thy selfe in the dust.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

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  • Jonah 3:1-5
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    86%

    1 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionah the seconde time, saying,

    2 Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, & preach vnto it the preaching, which I bid thee.

    3 So Ionah arose & went to Nineueh according to ye word of the Lord: now Nineueh was a great & excellent citie of three dayes iourney.

    4 And Ionah began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed, and said, Yet fourtie dayes, and Nineueh shalbe ouerthrowen.

    5 So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from ye greatest of the euen to the least of them.

  • Jonah 3:7-10
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    7 And he proclaimed & said through Nineueh, (by the counsell of ye king & his nobles) saying, Let neither ma, nor beast, bullock nor sheep taste any thing, neither feed nor drinke water.

    8 But let man and beast put on sackecloth, and crie mightily vnto God: yea, let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in their handes.

    9 Who can tell if God will turne, and repent and turne away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?

    10 And God sawe their workes that they turned from their euill wayes: and God repented of the euill that he had said that he woulde doe vnto them, and he did it not.

  • Jonah 1:1-3
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    76%

    1 The worde of the Lorde came also vnto Ionah the sonne of Amittai, saying,

    2 Arise, and goe to Nineueh, that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before mee.

    3 But Ionah rose vp to flee into Tarshish fro the presence of the Lord, and went downe to Iapho: and he founde a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, and went downe into it, that he might go with them vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord.

  • Nah 3:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 And I will cast filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gasing stocke.

    7 And it shall come to passe, that al they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say, Nineueh is destroyed, who will haue pitie vpon her? where shall I seeke comforters for thee?

  • Isa 37:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 And when the King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and came into the House of the Lord.

    2 And he sent Eliakim the stewarde of the house, aud Shebna the chanceller, with the Elders of the Priestes, clothed in sackcloth vnto Isaiah the Prophet, the sonne of Amoz.

  • 2 Kgs 19:1-2
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    74%

    1 And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and put on sackecloth, and came into the house of the Lord,

    2 And sent Eliakim which was the stewarde of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, & the Elders of the Priestes clothed in sackecloth to Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3 And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27 Nowe when Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, & put sackcloth vpon him and fasted, and lay in sackecloth and went softely.

    28 And the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,

  • Esth 4:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter.

    2 And he came euen before the Kings gate, but he might not enter within the Kings gate, being clothed with sackecloth.

    3 And in euery prouince, and place, whither the Kings charge and his commission came, there was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping and mourning, and many laye in sackecloth and in ashes.

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
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    30 And when the King had heard the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, (& as he went vpon the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackecloth within vpon his flesh)

  • Neh 9:1
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    1 In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackecloth, and earth vpon them.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    70%

    31 Then the King arose, & tare his garments, and lay on the ground, & all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.

  • Nah 2:8
    69%

    8 But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stande, stande, shall they crie: but none shall looke backe.

  • 2 Chr 34:19
    69%

    19 And when the King had heard the wordes of the Lawe, he tare his clothes.

  • Jer 4:8
    69%

    8 Wherefore girde you with sackecloth: lament, and howle, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is not turned backe from vs.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12 Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, & with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

    13 And rent your heart, & not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

  • 2 Kgs 22:11
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    11 And when the King had heard the wordes of the booke of the Law, he rent his clothes.

  • Ezra 9:5
    68%

    5 And at the euening sacrifice I arose vp fro mine heauinesse, and when I had rent my clothes and my garment, I fell vpon my knees, and spred out mine hands vnto the Lord my God,

  • Dan 5:6
    68%

    6 Then the Kings countenance was changed, and his thoughtes troubled him, so that the ioynts of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other.

  • Luke 11:32
    68%

    32 The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

  • Job 42:6
    68%

    6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • 2 Kgs 22:19
    68%

    19 But because thine heart did melt, & thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lorde, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I hane also heard it, saith the Lord.

  • Ezra 9:3
    68%

    3 But when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, and pluckt off the heare of mine head, and of my beard, and sate downe astonied.

  • 2 Kgs 19:36
    68%

    36 So Saneherib King of Asshur departed, & went his way, and returned, & dwelt in Nineueh.

  • Job 1:20
    67%

    20 Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,

  • Isa 37:37
    67%

    37 So Saneherib king of Asshur departed, and went away and returned and dwelt at Nineueh.

  • 2 Chr 34:27
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    27 But because thine heart did melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, sayth the Lorde.

  • Jonah 4:5
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    5 So Ionah went out of the citie and sate on the East side of the citie, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe till he might see what should be done in the citie.

  • Zeph 2:13
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    13 And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Asshur, and will make Nineueh desolate, and waste like a wildernesse.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30 And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

  • Matt 12:41
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    41 The men of Nineue shal rise in iudgemet with this generation, and condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and behold, a greater then Ionas is here.

  • 2 Kgs 9:13
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    13 Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.

  • 1 Kgs 20:38
    67%

    38 So the Prophet departed, & wayted for the King by the way, & disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face.

  • Jonah 4:1
    66%

    1 Therefore it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was angry.

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