Jonah 3:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Jonah 3:5

And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

Joel 1:18

How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep are dismayed.

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 straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.