OLD TESTAMENT

Jonah 3:6

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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.

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Verse 6. King Sardanapalus, (Salien, A. 3216) or rather his father, Phul, whom Strabo calls Anacyndaraxes, ( Calmet.) and who died in the year 3237, (Usher) four years after he had invaded Palestine. 4 Kennicott. 15:19.

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