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Jonah Chapter 3

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Jonah

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After Jonah’s disobedience, God sends a great storm that carries him into the belly of a large fish where he spends three days and nights. The fish then releases him onto dry land where the people mock him, and he repents, promising to obey God. This chapter shows God’s mercy and the consequences of disobedience, while also highlighting divine rescue.

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(1) And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
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Jonah 1:1John 21:15John 21:16John 21:17

(2) Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
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Jonah 3:3Jonah 1:2Zephaniah 2:13Zephaniah 2:14Zephaniah 2:15Jeremiah 1:17Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 15:20Jeremiah 15:21Ezekiel 2:7Ezekiel 3:17Matthew 3:8

(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.
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Genesis 22:3Matthew 21:28Matthew 21:29II Timothy 4:11Genesis 30:8Psalms 36:6Psalms 80:10

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Jonah 3:4Jonah 3:6Jonah 4:6

(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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Jonah 3:10Deuteronomy 18:22II Kings 20:1II Kings 20:6Jeremiah 18:7Jeremiah 18:8Jeremiah 18:9Jeremiah 18:10

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Jonah 3:3

(5) 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.
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Exodus 9:18Exodus 9:19Exodus 9:20Exodus 9:21Matthew 12:41Luke 11:32Acts 27:25Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:7II Chronicles 20:3Ezra 8:21Jeremiah 36:9

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Zechariah 8:19Isaiah 58:5Mark 2:18

(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.
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Jeremiah 13:18Psalms 2:10Psalms 2:11Psalms 2:12James 1:9James 1:10James 4:6James 4:7James 4:8James 4:9James 4:10Esther 4:1

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I Kings 3:20Jonah 3:3I Samuel 20:25I Kings 2:19II Chronicles 18:9Revelation 4:2

(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:
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Jonah 3:5II Chronicles 20:3Ezra 8:21Joel 2:15Joel 2:16Joel 1:18Romans 8:20Romans 8:21Romans 8:22

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Ezekiel 34:8Revelation 4:7Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4

(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.
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Jonah 1:6Jonah 1:14Psalms 130:1Psalms 130:2Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 1:17Isaiah 1:18Isaiah 1:19Isaiah 55:6Isaiah 55:7Isaiah 58:6Ezekiel 18:21

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Revelation 4:7Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15Habakkuk 1:2Judges 4:18

(9) Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Jonah 1:6II Samuel 12:22Psalms 106:45Joel 2:13Joel 2:14Amos 5:15Luke 15:18Luke 15:19Luke 15:20

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Ezekiel 33:11Ezekiel 14:6Exodus 32:12Judges 4:18II Samuel 2:21II Chronicles 30:9

(10) 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.
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I Kings 21:27I Kings 21:28I Kings 21:29Job 33:27Job 33:28Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Luke 11:32Luke 15:20Jonah 4:2Jeremiah 18:8

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Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

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