 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. r See on MAT. xii. 42. " JONAH, iii. 5, 10: The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, on the greatest of them even unto the least of them. And God saw their works, and they turned from... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...that believeth, shall not make haste. — Isa. xxviii. 16. vii. 9. Prov. xvi. 3. 2 Chron. xx. 20. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, &c. Who can tell if God will turn, and repent! &c. And God saw their works, that they turned from their... | |
 | Hugh Macneile (Dean of Ripon.) - 1829 - 136 pages
...Amittai, prophesied against Nineveh, and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed. Then 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. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he... | |
 | John Wesley - 1829 - 520 pages
...Heathens. When Jonah had declared, " Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown," the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them unto the least. " For the king of Nineveh arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 474 pages
...but a personal reformation, pervading every rank and description of men in that community. ' So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,...and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least.' The king of Nineveh published, we read, a decree for the strict observation of this... | |
 | Francis Geach Crossman - 1830 - 366 pages
...consent, "six-score thousand persons, who could not discern between their right hand and their left, believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them." And so the Spirit prevailed, and the fierce anger of God was turned away, and... | |
 | Henry Cogswell Knight - 1831 - 280 pages
...the cry, through the principal streets, Yet forty days ; leaving them a space for repentance. 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. Jonah wrought no miracle, nor showed any sign, that we read of, yet the people... | |
 | John Wesley - 1831 - 466 pages
...heathens. When Jonah had declared, " Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed, the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them unto the least. For the King of Nineveh arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 pages
...foretold that the destruction of that stately city would come to pass in forty days, they " proclaim*! a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least ; for word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 IT 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... | |
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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. 
