1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.Now Nineveh was an extremely large city, a three-day walk.
4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished! ”
5 The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth — from the greatest of them to the least.