Jonah 3:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And the people of Nineveh believed God; they 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 went into the house of the Lord.

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 humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

Exodus 33:6

Therefore the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Jeremiah 31:34

No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 36:9

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

Jeremiah 42:1

Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached

Jeremiah 42:8

Then he summoned Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call 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.

Jonah 3:7

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

Matthew 12:41

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed something greater than Jonah is here!

Luke 11:32

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed, something greater than Jonah is here!

Acts 27:25

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

Acts 8:10

All of them, from the least to the greatest, listened to him eagerly, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”

Hebrews 11:1

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

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”