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 Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 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 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

Cross References

Luke 11:32

The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Daniel 9:3

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast,
Proclaim a solemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.

Joel 2:12-17

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
Return to Me with all your heart,
And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

Matthew 12:41

The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

Exodus 9:18-21

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.

Jeremiah 31:34

They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Jeremiah 36:9

Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:1

Then all the commanders of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people both small and great approached

Jeremiah 42:8

Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,

Acts 8:10

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.”

Acts 27:25

Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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