Jonah 3:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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  • Esth 4:1-4 : 1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; 2 and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 4 Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent clothing to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he didn't receive it.
  • Job 2:8 : 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
  • Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
  • Jas 4:6-9 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Matt 11:21 : 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Luke 10:13 : 13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
  • Ps 2:10-12 : 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
  • Jer 13:18 : 18 Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Don't tell it in Gath, Don't weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah means literally "House of Dust."} I have rolled myself in the dust.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

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    1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,

    2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

    3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

    4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

    5 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 3:7-10
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    7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

    8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

    9 Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

    10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.

  • Jonah 1:1-3
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    1 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

    2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

    3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

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    6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

    7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"

  • Isa 37:1-2
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    1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.

    2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

  • 2 Kgs 19:1-2
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    1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.

    2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-28
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    27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

    28 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • Esth 4:1-3
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    1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

    2 and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

    3 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
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    30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

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    1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

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    31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

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    8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.

  • 2 Chr 34:19
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    19 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12 "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

    13 Tear your heart, and not your garments, And turn to Yahweh, your God; For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, And relents from sending calamity.

  • 2 Kgs 22:11
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    11 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.

  • Ezra 9:5
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    5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

  • Dan 5:6
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    6 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

  • Luke 11:32
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    32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

  • Job 42:6
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    6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

  • 2 Kgs 22:19
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    19 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.

  • Ezra 9:3
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    3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

  • 2 Kgs 19:36
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    36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

  • Job 1:20
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    20 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

  • Isa 37:37
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    37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

  • 2 Chr 34:27
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    27 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.

  • Jonah 4:5
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    5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

  • Zeph 2:13
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    13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Matt 12:41
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    41 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

  • 2 Kgs 9:13
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    13 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

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    38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

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    1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

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