Jonah 3:5

Modern English Version

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. And everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat was fearful and set himself to seek the Lord, and he called for a fast throughout all Judah.

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 good route for us, our little ones, and all our substance.

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry.

Exodus 33:6

The Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Jeremiah 31:34

They shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 36:9

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

Jeremiah 42:1

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest came near,

Jeremiah 42:8

Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

Daniel 9:3

I set my face toward the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Jonah 3:7

Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not eat or drink water.

Matthew 12:41

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

Luke 11:32

The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

Acts 27:25

Therefore, men, take courage, for I believe God that it will be exactly as it was told to me.

Acts 8:10

to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to save his family, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”