 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 372 pages
...where, having warned the mhabitants that in forty days their city should be overthrown, the people put on sackcloth, " from the greatest of them even to the least." The king sat in ashes, and proclaimed a fast. " Let neither man nor beast," said the edict, " herd... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...Lord Came unto Jonah the second time. So Jonah arose, and went unto luneveh. And he cried, and said, Yet forty days, And Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...proclaimed a fast, And put on sackcloth, From the least of them even unto the greatest. For word came unto the king of luneveh ; And he arose from his... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - Clothing and dress - 1842 - 418 pages
...vi. 5 Jonah, chap. iii. ver. 6. The preceding verse is also to the purpose, it runs thus : " So (he people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,...from the greatest of them even to the least of them." INTRODUCTION. women; for Tamar, David's daughter, after she had been abused by Amnon, " put ashes on... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1842 - 496 pages
..." And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord, and entered and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put. on sackeloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them. And God saw their works, that they... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1842 - 440 pages
...three days journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackeloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came to the king of Nineveh,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...that believeth, shall not make haste. — Isa. xxviii. 16 ; vii. 9 ; Prov. xvi. 3 ; 2 Chron. xx. 20. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackeloth, &c. Who can tell it' God will turn and repent ? &c. And God saw their works, that they turned... | |
 | 1843 - 606 pages
...Jonah," alone and unfriended, " began to enter into the city a day's journey ; and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...greatest of them even to the least of them. For word can e unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robes from him, and covered... | |
 | Religion - 1843 - 592 pages
...Jonah," alone and unfriended, " began to enter into the city a day's journey ; and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...greatest of them even to the least of them. For word cane unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robes from him, and covered... | |
 | Henry Phibbs Fry - Apostolic succession - 1843 - 290 pages
...proclaimed a fast. (Ezra viii, 21, 23 ) "The children of Israel were assembled, with " The Ninevites believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least, and the King covered himsell with sackcloth, and sat in ashes, and God saw their works,... | |
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So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 
