Bible Dictionary: Repentance: True: Nineveh

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Jonah 3:5-8
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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Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
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Threefold Repentance
... We learn from the Ninevites what is true repentance They brought no sacrifices or
offerings ... Nineveh repented on a peradventure that their repentance might avail ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/threefold repentance.htm

Instances of God's Repentance, and Notably in the Case of the ...
... or demiurge, whom Marcion calumniated, is the true and good ... of Saul, it follows that
this repentance is to ... destruction against the people of Nineveh, He must ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xxiv instances of gods repentance.htm

Nineveh.
... by the cry, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be ... wept, till God had mercy on their
repentance and ready ... instead of learning Who was his true Guardian, Ahaz ...
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Manasseh's Sin and Repentance
... The story of Manasseh's sin and repentance may stand as a ... captivity also is specified,
not as Nineveh, as might ... that we may know Him that is true.' Then, if we ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/manassehs sin and repentance.htm

The Doctrines of Salvation A. Repentance. B. Faith. C. ...
... or even a single tear, accompanies all true repentance is evident ... very Gospel which
calls for repentance produces it ... experience of the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3 ...
/.../evans/the great doctrines of the bible/the doctrines of salvation a.htm

Meditations against Despair, or Doubting of God's Mercy.
... as sure as God is true, he will not. Though Nineveh's sins had provoked the Lord
to send out his sentence against them, yet upon their repentance, he recalled ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/meditations against despair or doubting.htm

Sign Seekers, and the Enthusiast Reproved.
... Jonah was shown to be a true prophet of ... Nineveh's privilege may be counted thus:
a sign-accredited ... accompanying miracles, and a forty-day period of repentance. ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlix sign seekers and the.htm

Jonah and Micah.
... and on Nineveh. (4) God's care for heathen nations. (4-11), and its bearing upon
the Foreign Mission enterprise. (5) The nature of true repentance and God's ...
/.../the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter xx jonah and micah.htm

Guilty Silence and Its Reward
... Jonah's repentance saved his life. ... The subsequent action of the Prophet in Nineveh,
and the effect of it, were true types of the preaching of the Gospel by ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/guilty silence and its reward.htm

The Same is Taught from the History of Jonah.
... was more wicked and more adulterous than the city of Nineveh; for the ... and beasts,
with sackcloth, and with earnest lamentation, with true repentance from the ...
/.../chapter cvii the same is taught.htm