Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Believed

Exodus 9:18
Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation of it even until now.
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Acts 27:25
Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

And proclaimed

2 Chronicles 20:3
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Jeremiah 36:9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
Joel 2:12
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

From

Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 42:1
Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
Acts 8:10
To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

General references

Genesis 37:34
And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Exodus 9:20
He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: