Parallel Verses
NET Bible
When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
New American Standard Bible
Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,
International Standard Version
Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!"
A Conservative Version
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Then on the first day’s walk, Jonah
Bible in Basic English
And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
Darby Translation
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!
Julia Smith Translation
And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!"
Modern King James verseion
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!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Jonah went to and entered into the city even a day's journey, and cried, saying, "There shall not pass forty days but Nineveh shall be overthrown."
New Heart English Bible
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
The Emphasized Bible
So Jonah began to enter into the city, one day's journey, - and he cried out and said - Yet forty days, and, Nineveh, is to be overthrown!
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'
Themes
Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Christian ministers » Success attending » Jonah
Days » Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles
Days » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Forty » Days » Of probation, given to the ninevites
Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Nineveh » Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Revivals » Instances of » In nineveh
Topics
Interlinear
Chalal
'echad
Yowm
Yowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 3:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Of Nineveh Repent At Jonah's Proclamation
3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city -- it required three days to walk through it!) 4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!" 5 The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:22
whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him."
Jeremiah 18:7-10
There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.
2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the Lord says, 'Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"
2 Kings 20:6
I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant."'"
Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions -- they turned from their evil way of living! -- God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.