Parallel Verses
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."
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."
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!"
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 arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across. 4 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." 5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
Jeremiah 18:7-10
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
2 Kings 20:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.'"
2 Kings 20:6
I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."'"
Jonah 3:10
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 did not do it.