Bible Dictionary: Heathen: The Ninevites

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Jonah 3:5-10
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.
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Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that it was not Right to ...
... Chapter X."Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that It Was Not Right to ... comply
with the brief terms of the announcement; which the Ninevites having obeyed ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter x answer to the objection.htm

The Historicity of the Book of Jonah.
... objector interposes this difficulty: "Can we conceive of a heathen city being ... Again,
they interpose the difficulty: "How could the Ninevites give credence to a ...
/.../viii the historicity of the.htm

Repentance More Competent to Heathens than to Christians.
... Was that, then, the reason why Jonah thought not repentance necessary to the heathen
Ninevites, when he tergiversated in the duty of preaching? ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter x repentance more competent to.htm

The Prophet Jonah.
... deep impression which the discourse of Jonah produced upon the Ninevites. ... Nineveh,
the representative of the heathen multitude, is very significantly called ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the prophet jonah.htm

Threefold Repentance
... and efficacy of repentance, and to show how the penitent man, heathen or Jew ... renegade
Prophet returning to his high mission, or the fierce Ninevites humbled and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/threefold repentance.htm

The True Sign
... to the Ninevites, so Christ's preaching was a sign to His generation. But what a
contrast in the reception of the word! The people of the great heathen city ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 44 the true sign.htm

"Nineveh, that Great City"
... God of Israel was exalted and honored throughout the heathen world, and ... The compassion
shown by God toward the repentant Ninevites "displeased Jonah exceedingly ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 22 nineveh that great.htm

The True Spirit of Missions.
... He beheld us, not as the Ninevites once were, in sackcloth and ashes, but recklessly
violating ... Are the heathen guilty"covered with blood and black with crime ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter i the true spirit.htm

The Twelve Minor Prophets.
... However this may be, Jonah's mission to the Ninevites foreshadowed God's purposes
of mercy towards the heathen world, and that too at a very suitable time ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxiii the twelve minor.htm

God Has Everything to do with Prayer
... That decree which promises to Him the heathen for His inheritance relies on ... The fasting
and prayers of the Ninevites changed Gods purposes to destroy that ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/iv god has everything to.htm

Subtopics

Heathen: Cast out of Canaan

Heathen: Cyrus

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Abimelech

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Balaam

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Belshazzar

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Cornelius

Heathen: Divine Revelations Given to Cyrus