Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.

International Standard Version

The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important.

A Conservative Version

And 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.

American Standard Version

And 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.

Amplified

The people of Nineveh believed and trusted in God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest even to the least of them.

Bible in Basic English

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

Darby Translation

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Julia Smith Translation

And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth--from the greatest of them {to the least important}.

Modern King James verseion

And the people of Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.

NET Bible

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, - and proclaimed a fast, and clothed themselves in sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even unto the least of them.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So the people
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

of Nineveh
נינוה 
Niyn@veh 
Usage: 17

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

a fast
צם צום 
Tsowm 
Usage: 26

and put
לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

שׂק 
Saq 
Usage: 48

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

of them even to the least
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

References

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Watsons

Context Readings

The People Of Nineveh Repent At Jonah's Proclamation

4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed. 5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he threw his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

Cross References

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.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Daniel 9:3

And I turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:

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 2:12-17

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:

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.

Exodus 9:18-21

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.

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 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 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.

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,

Jeremiah 42:8

Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

Acts 8:10

to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This is the great virtue of God.

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.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, having received revelation of things not seen as yet, with great care prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

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