Bible Dictionary: Repentance: The Ninevites, by the Preaching of Jonah

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Jonah 3:5-9
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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The Historicity of the Book of Jonah.
... Psalm 62:11), and he put on record the repentance of the Ninevites, saying, "The ...
generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah ...
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Threefold Repentance
... of the narrative is to parallel the Ninevites turning from ... of destruction; and if
the word 'repentance' is not ... be honoured by the trust of preaching once more ...
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The Prophet Jonah.
... future period the Lord will grant to the Gentiles the preaching of His ... for the good
emotions of the crew, and the repentance of the Ninevites, evidently did ...
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"Nineveh, that Great City"
... Himself to them in an unmistakable manner, to lead them, if possible, to repentance. ...
As the preaching of Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so Christ's ...
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Sign Seekers, and the Enthusiast Reproved.
... idea here is that the Ninevites, having improved ... thus: a sign-accredited prophet
preaching without accompanying miracles, and a forty-day period of repentance. ...
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The Remarkable Faith of the Ninevites is Related to have Been ...
... The remarkable faith of the Ninevites is related to ... the prophet declined that office
of preaching, not out ... behold God reconciled through the repentance of the ...
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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? ...
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The Hebrew Prophecies.
... He speaks of the repentance of the Ninevites under the preaching of Jonah as a rebuke
to the Jews who had heard the word of life from him and had not repented ...
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Who Can Tell?
... to solve"how shall this city be moved to repentance? ... the third thing which startled
the Ninevites was this ... one part of the effect of Jonah's preaching may be ...
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Meditations on the Hindrances which Keep Back a Sinner from the ...
... Beware, therefore, lest, trusting to late repentance at thy last end on ... been pricked
(Acts 2:37.) Had not the Ninevites heard Jonah's preaching, they had ...
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