1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2. “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach 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 three-day walk.
4. Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished! ”
5. The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth — from the greatest of them to the least.
6. When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.