Introduction
The people of Nineveh were wicked God sent Jonah to warn them. What did they do?
A) Jonah obeyed the word of God.
Verses 1-3
God gave Jonah the second chance the fish that swallowed him for three days and night vomited him on a dry land at Nineveh.
God instructed him to enter the city and preach to them that if they fail to repent and turn away from their acts of wickedness in forty days time the they will be destroyed.
B) The Message which Jonah Proclaimed:
Verses 4
Jonah angrily entered the city in a day and told the people that in forty days judgment will come on them.
C) The reaction of the people to Jonah's message.
Verses 5
a) They believed God.
b) They proclaimed fasting.
C) Put on sackcloth.
From their greatest to the least. The inhabitants did this by themselves.
D) The reaction of the king to the message:
Verses 6
When the king heard the message
He arose from the throne, laid aside his robe,he covered himself on sackcloth.Sat in ashes.
He also took same action as those of the inhabitants.
E) He made a decree to be published
Verses 7.
No man, beast, herd or flock should taste anything i.e eating / drinking.
To be Continued.
Reverend P. A. Adeleke
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