Jonah 3:6 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.”
Jonah 3:6 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jonah 3:6 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jonah 3:6 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.”
Jonah 3:6 — World English Bible
Jonah 3:6 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. ”
Jonah 3:6 — American Standard Version
Jonah 3:6 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,”
Jonah 3:6 — Young's Literal Translation
Jonah 3:6 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. ”
Jonah 3:6 — Darby Translation
Jonah 3:6 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.”
Jonah 3:6 — Geneva Bible
Jonah 3:6 in Context — Jonah 3
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city 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 laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
What Does Jonah 3:6 Mean?
Jonah 3:6 is a verse from the Book of Jonah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Jonah chapter 3. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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