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.”
King James Version
Jonah's 40-day warning to Nineveh, conditionally fulfilled as Nineveh repented and God relented — demonstrating divine mercy.
Fulfillment References
Jonah 3:5-10 Matthew 12:41 Luke 11:32
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