| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1833 - 166 Seiten
...and the nobles decree that there shall be a generalfast, " 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. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and... | |
| Member of the Church of England - 1833 - 156 Seiten
...greater than Jonas is here. JONAH, Ch. Hi. V. 5. — So the people of Nineveh believed ELOHIH, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. If the Ninevites listened to Jonas, and repented of their sins, how great must be our guilt if we reject... | |
| 1833 - 248 Seiten
...a greater than Jonas is here. JONAH, Ch. iii. V. 5.—So the people of Nineveh believed ELOHIH, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. If the Ninevites listened to Jonas, and repented of their sins, how great must be our guilt if we reject... | |
| Richard Formby - 1833 - 388 Seiten
...and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown! And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he... | |
| Richard Charles Coxe - 1834 - 380 Seiten
...idle inquiries "whence, and what art thou T — "So the people of Nineveh believed God" at once, " and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them 1." But what is such a threat to us, who have been taught not to fear him that killeth the body, by... | |
| 1836 - 368 Seiten
...it was to be destroyed. Jonah did so, and it is added, " 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. For word came unto the king of Nineveh ; and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and... | |
| 1838 - 900 Seiten
...said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 ^1 So the people of Nineveh 'believed God, and . 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 574 Seiten
...also Matt. xii. 39, 40, and Luke xi. 29, 30. Again — " 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," Jonah iii. 5. " The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it;... | |
| John Wesley - 1836 - 550 Seiten
...heathens. When Jonah had declared, " Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown," the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them unto the least. " For the king of Nineveh arose from his throne, and laic! his robe from him, and covered... | |
| Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 Seiten
...practised humiliation — but it was public and religious — "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." Thus the Assyrians fasted, not only in a common acceptation, but strictly according to our definition.... | |
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