| Member of the Church of England - 1833 - 156 Seiten
...behold a 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... | |
| Author of The infant Christian's first catechism - 1833 - 238 Seiten
...they wisely laid them to heart, and humbled themselves to the very dust before the Almighty ; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them ; for the king of Nineveh, when he was told the words of Jonah, came down from his throne, and laid aside... | |
| 1833 - 248 Seiten
...behold 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 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... | |
| Amariah Brigham - 1835 - 350 Seiten
...they apprehended any great calamity. Thus when Jonah prophesied against Nineveh, the king of Nineveh " arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,...published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed nor... | |
| 1836 - 368 Seiten
...streets of Nineveh, that after forty days it was to be destroyed. Jonah did so, and it is added, " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...proclaimed and published through Nineveh, by the decree oftheking and his nobles, saying, 'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor Hock, taste any thing ; let... | |
| 1836 - 446 Seiten
...at least, the high legislative encouragement of religion ; " for word came unto the king of Niniveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe...he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Niniveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, — let neither man nor beast, herd nor... | |
| 1838 - 900 Seiten
...city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 ^1 Knight 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
...of the prophet Jonas," Matt., xvi. 4. See also Matt. xii. 39, 40, and Luke xi. 29, 30. Again — " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...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;... | |
| George Rapall Noyes - 1837 - 308 Seiten
...the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put away his robe from him, and covered 7 himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it...published through Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, ' saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing ; let them not feed,... | |
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