...greateft of them even to the leaft of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and lie arofe from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with fackcloth, and fat in afhes. 7 And he caufed it to be proclaimed and publilhed through Nineveh by the...

...judgments were threatened, Jonah iii. 6, 7. 9. " For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arofe from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himfelfwith fackcloth, and fat in afhes : and caufed it to be proclaimed and publifhed through Nineveh,...

...Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even unto the least of them. For word came unto the king of...him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let...

...God, and " proclaimed a faft, and put on fackcloth *' from the greateft of them even to the " leaft of them: for word came unto the «' king of Nineveh : and he arofe from his " throne, and he laid his robe from him, and " covered him with fackcloth, and fat in...

...neveh shall be overthrown," that the inhabitants thereof " believed God, and pro<f claimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from " the greatest of them...the least of " them : for word came unto the king of Ni" neveh : and he arose from his throne, and, 'f he laid his robe from him, and covered him " with...

...mariners should have informed the Alnevites of the miracle wrought for him, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them ; they fasted to add fervency to their prayer, and joined with this, sackcloth, to testify their humiliation,...

...foretold the destruction of that stately city would come to pass in forty days, " they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least ; for word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him,...

...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. And God saw their works, that they returned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil that...

...felicitously selected from the prophet Jonah, " So the people of Nini-veh believed God, and proclaimed a Fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least." Mr. Gardiner, after expounding and illustrating his text in a very elegant manner, concludes his animated...

...fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the lowest ; and the kitig arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes, and cried night and day unto God. The object, then, of this day, is to confess our sins, and to repent...