Jonah 3:7

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Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid; he 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 Ahava, that we might deny ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Joel 1:18

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle wander about because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep are dazed.

Jonah 3:5

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