The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, Jon 1:1Jhn 21:15-17 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.” Ezk 2:7Jer 1:17Jon 1:2Jon 3:3Ezk 3:17Jer 15:19-21Jhn 5:14Mat 3:8
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across. Gen 22:3Mat 21:28-29Psa 80:10Gen 30:8Psa 36:62Ti 4:11 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!” Deu 18:22Jer 18:7-102Ki 20:12Ki 20:6Jon 3:10
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. Luk 11:32Dan 9:3Jol 2:12-17Mat 12:412Ch 20:3Jol 1:14Exo 9:18-21Act 27:25 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Est 4:1-4Jas 4:6-10Dan 9:3Job 2:8Ezk 27:30-31Jas 1:9-10Jer 6:26Luk 10:13 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; 2Ch 20:3Jol 1:18Jol 2:15-16Jon 3:5Ezr 8:21Rom 8:20-22 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. Isa 55:6-7Isa 59:6Jon 1:6Act 3:19Ezk 18:21-24Isa 1:16-19Jon 1:14Act 26:20 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?” 2Sa 12:22Jol 2:13-14Jon 1:6Luk 15:18-20Psa 106:45Amo 5:15
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. Jer 18:81Ki 21:27-29Exo 32:14Amo 7:6Luk 11:32Luk 15:20Amo 7:3Jer 31:18-20