 | John Wesley - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...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... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...denunciation alarmed them 1; WM influential on them all. Insomuch that "the people of Nineveh töcved God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest ! them even to the least," Jonah iii. 5. " They believed ; " hence we learn 'rue nature of believing... | |
 | William Chillingworth - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...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...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... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...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.... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...nothing,) but a personal reformation, pervading every rank and description of men in that community. " So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackloth from the greatest of them even to the least." The king of Nineveh published, we read, a decree... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 966
...the banks of the Tigris. " Jonah began to enter into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...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 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...the banks of the Tigris. " Jonah began to enter into the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So...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... | |
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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. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him... 
