Jonah 3:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ And the word reached the sovereign of Ninewĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For word came to the king of Nineveh [of all that had happened to Jonah, and his terrifying message from God], and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe aside, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Common English Bible

⁶ When word of it reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, stripped himself of his robe, covered himself with mourning clothes, and sat in ashes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And word reached the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne, and he threw off his robe from himself and was clothed in sackcloth, and he sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:6 Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to be, when Aḥ

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they shall put on sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets everyone wails, weeping bitterly.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the sovereign and to the sovereigness mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your rule, the crown of your comeliness, has come down.”

Jeremiah 36:13

And Miḵ

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet the sovereign and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation because suddenly the ravager shall come upon us.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yerushalayim Have let their heads hang to the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust, There might yet be expectancy.

Ezekiel 26:16

‘And all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and they shall lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments, and put on trembling, and sit on the ground. And they shall tremble continuously, and they shall be astonished at you.

Daniel 9:3

So I set my face toward יהוה  the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Do not declare it in Gath, weep not at all in Bĕ

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bĕ

Luke 10:13

“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bĕ