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1 ¶ And the word of the
LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh,
that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and
went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an
exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to
enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty
days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. |
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The record doesn't say that Jonah called for repentance. |
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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.
6 For word came unto
the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe
from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to
be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and
his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any
thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast
be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God
will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish
not? |
God's plan to destroy
the city was conditional. He preached what the Lord had told him v2. |
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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and
he did it not. |
Prophecies dependent on human
response are conditional. The word repented
would be better translated, "relented," in modern English |
