 | William Chillingworth - 1838 - 474 Seiten
...was, you maysee, Jonas iii, from thefifth to the last verse : The people of Nineveh believed God — and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even...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,... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 Seiten
...their vassals. Therefore, the Assyrians practised humiliation — but it was public and religious — "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...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.... | |
 | 1839 - 966 Seiten
...into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them." " Who can tell," (said the decree of the king ordaining the fast,) " if God... | |
 | Arthur Philip Perceval - 1839 - 380 Seiten
...was time, 12 to appease His wrath, and excite His pity and compassion. In the words of the Prophet, " the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest even unto the least of them." For the king's commandment was, that they should fast and be covered... | |
 | Charles G. Finney - 1840 - 286 Seiten
...hope and expectation that the city would be spared if the people repented. Jonah, 3 : 5 — 10: — "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...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,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 Seiten
...suspended or revoked according to their moral conduct. In this instance, it was thus changed; " for the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least; and they cried mightily unto God, and turned every one from their evil way, and from the violence that... | |
 | 1841 - 214 Seiten
...word, and warned by it, by a general repentance and humiliation, averted the blow. The king of Nineveh "arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from...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,... | |
 | 1841 - 406 Seiten
...into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed...and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them." " Who can tell," (said the decree of the king ordaining the fast,) " if God... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1842 - 418 Seiten
...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... | |
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For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles,... 
