Jonah 3:1-5, 10 (#thanksriver for help translating)
The word of the Sovereign came to Jonah a
second time, saying,
2“Get
up,
go to
Nineveh,
that
great city,
and cry out against it
the cry which I am about to tell you.”
3So
Jonah set out and went to Nineveh,
according to
the word of the Sovereign.
Now
Nineveh was an great city to God,
a
three day journey across.
4Jonah
began to enter Nineveh,
a one day journey;
and
he cried out,
“Forty
days until Nineveh is destroyed.”
5And
the people of Nineveh believed God!
They
proclaimed a fasting period,
and they put
on sackcloth,
from the greatest of them to the least.
10God saw their deeds,
that they had turned from their evil ways,
and God
repented from the evil
that
God had said would be done to them.
And
God did not do it.
Queeries for the text:
What did Jonah do the first time the word of God came to him?
Does Jonah still smell like a big fish?
How will the people of Nineveh respond to the fish smell? (#thanksrevjoshua)
Does Jonah even want the people of Nineveh to repent?
Is Jonah's the shortest sermon ever?
Did Jonah even finish walking through the city or just stop one day in?
Is it possible to be a worse prophet than Jonah?
How often does God change Her mind?
Why did the cattle get left out of the Revised Common Lectionary?
What are your queeries?
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