Jonah 3:1-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Jonah’s Preaching

3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:^{(A) 2} “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh^(B) and preach^(C) the message that I tell you.” ³ So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely large city,^[a](D) a three-day walk.^{[b] 4} Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,^(E) “In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished!”