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.
And proclaimed
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 thereof even until now.
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in the 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 Nineve 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
Faith, therefore, is the substance of things waited for, the evidence of things not seen.
And proclaimed
2 Chronicles 20:3
Then Jehoshaphat feared and set himself 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 afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
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 of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the earth into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD.
Joel 2:12
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:
From
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall no longer teach every man his neighbour 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, said the LORD, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 42:1
Then all the princes of the armies, 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 is the great virtue of God.
General references
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob rent 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 slaves of Pharaoh made his slaves and his livestock flee into the houses;