| Tracts - 1841 - 406 pages
...the city," (Nineveh,) " and he cried and said, yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,...the greatest of them even unto the least of them." " Who can tell," (said the decree of the king ordaining the fast,) " if God will turn * Numb. xiv.... | |
| Simon Patrick - Fasting - 1841 - 248 pages
...part of Repentance; and as a means to turn away God's anger ; as we may gather from the Ninevites, who proclaimed a Fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least ; hoping God would turn from His fierce anger denounced against them, if they turned every... | |
| Joseph Strutt - Clothing and dress - 1842 - 418 pages
...vi. 5 Jonah, chap. iii. ver. 6. The preceding verse is also to the purpose, it runs thus : " So (he people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,...and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them." INTRODUCTION. women; for Tamar, David's daughter, after she had been abused... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 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. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he... | |
| Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...went unto luneveh. And he cried, and said, Yet forty days, And Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, And proclaimed a fast, And put on sackcloth, From the least of them even unto the greatest. For word came unto the king of luneveh ; And he arose from his... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...believeth, shall not make haste. — Isa. xxviii. 16 ; vii. 9 ; Prov. xvi. 3 ; 2 Chron. xx. 20. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackeloth, &c. Who can tell it' God will turn and repent ? &c. And God saw their works, that they turned... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1842 - 496 pages
...the word of the Lord, and entered and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put. on sackeloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them. And God saw their works, that they... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1842 - 440 pages
...city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackeloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came to the king of Nineveh,... | |
| 1843 - 606 pages
...city a day's journey ; and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 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. For word can e unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he... | |
| Religion - 1843 - 592 pages
...city a day's journey ; and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 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. For word cane unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he... | |
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