The King who bowed

Most of us if not all have heard the story of Jonah. God told Jonah to go preach to Ninevah and let them know if they don’t repent, they will be overthrown. Jonah went in the opposite direction, experienced a storm, was asked by the ships crew why he would curse them instead of going to Ninevah. Jonah is thrown overboard, swallowed by a large fish and spit up on land. That is where we pick the story up today. Chapter 3 starts with God reminding Jonah exactly what He wanted Jonah to tell the people.

King James Version Chapter 3

And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. 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 icovered him with sackcloth, and jsat 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. 9 qWho can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that sthey turned from their evil way; and tGod repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

The King Removed his Position

The King Removed his prestige

Removed his prestige

The King Removed his pride