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An Unforeseen Success

Chapter 3

The word of the Lord then came to Jonah for a second time: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”[a] Therefore, Jonah set out and journeyed to Nineveh in obedience to the command of the Lord.

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city; it required three days simply to walk across it. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:2 Nineveh is described as a city of very unlikely size. The story required that this very pagan city be immense.

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah(A) a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.

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