Yunus 3:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu atas perintah raja dan para pembesarnya orang memaklumkan dan mengatakan di Niniwe demikian: "Manusia dan ternak, lembu sapi dan kambing domba tidak boleh makan apa-apa, tidak boleh makan rumput dan tidak boleh minum air.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu atas perintah raja dan para pembesarnya orang memaklumkan dan mengatakan di Niniwe demikian: "Manusia dan ternak, lembu sapi dan kambing domba tidak boleh makan apa-apa, tidak boleh makan rumput dan tidak boleh minum air.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka disuruh baginda orang berseru-seru dan mengatakan di Ninewe dengan titah raja dan segala orang besar-besarnya, bunyinya: Baik manusia atau binatang baik lembu atau kambing, jangan diberi makan apa-apa, jangan dihantar ke tanah rumput atau diberi minum air!

Contextual Overview

⁵ And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them. ⁶ And worde came vnto the king of Niniue: which arose from his throne, and put of his robe, and couered him selfe with sackcloth, & sate downe in asshes. ⁷ And he caused a cryer to crye, and say through the citie by the counsell of the king & his nobles, Let neither man nor beast, bullocke nor sheepe, taste ought at all, neither feede, nor drinke water. ⁸ And let both man & beast put on sackcloth, and crye mightyly vnto God: yea let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in his handes. ⁹ Who can tel whether God wyl turne and be moued with repentaunce, and turne from his fierce wrath, that we perishe not? ¹⁰ And God sawe their workes, that they turned from their euil wayes, and he repented of the euill that he saide he woulde do vnto them, and did it not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

caused: Jonah 3:5, 2 Chronicles 20:3, Ezra 8:21, Joel 2:15, Joel 2:16

published: Heb. said

nobles: Heb. great men

herd: Joel 1:18, Romans 8:20-22

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:11 - that he rent Ezra 7:28 - his counsellors Isaiah 58:4 - shall not fast as ye do this day Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Luke 4:2 - he did

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
And they were both naked the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:5
For God doth knowe, that the same day that ye eate therof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shalbe eue as gods, knowyng good and euyll.

Genesis 3:10
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.

Genesis 3:11
And he sayde: Who tolde thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou not eaten of the same tree, concernyng the which I commaunded thee that thou shouldest not eate of it?

Deuteronomy 28:34
So that thou shalt be cleane beside thy self, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

2 Kings 6:20
But it fortuned that when they were come to Samaria, Elisa sayde: Lorde, open their eyes that they may see. And the Lorde opened their eyes, and they sawe, & behold they were in the middes of Samaria.

Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is narrowe and not large, and the couering so small that a man can not winde him selfe [vnder it.]

Isaiah 59:6
Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes.

Luke 16:23
And beyng in hell in tormentes, he lyft vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre of, and Lazarus in his bosome,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh,.... By a herald or heralds, sent into the several parts of the city:

by the decree of the king and his nobles; with whom he consulted, and whose advice he took; and who were equally concerned at this news, and very probably were present when word was brought to the king concerning it:

saying, let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; a very strict and general fast this: abstinence from all food was enjoined; not only men of every rank and age, but the cattle likewise, horses and camels, they used either for their pleasure or business; their oxen, cows, and calves, of their herd; their sheep, goats, lambs, and kids, of their flocks:

let them not feed, nor drink water; no food were to be put into their mangers or folds: nor were they to be suffered to graze in their pastures, or to be allowed the least quantity of food or drink; this was ordered, to make the mourning the greater; thus Virgil u describes the mourning for the death of Caesar by the oxen not coming to the rivers to drink, nor touching the grass of the field; and to afflict their minds the more, and for their greater mortification, since these creatures were for their use and pleasure, Fasting was used by the Heathens; as well as the Jews, in some cases; particularly the Egyptians, as Herodotus w observes, from whom the Assyrians might take it.

u "Non ulli pastos, illis egere diebus Frigida Daphni boves, ad flumius, nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam". Bucolic. Eclog. 5. l. 24, &c. w L. 2. c. 4. & l. 4. c. 186.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh; - literally, “And he cried and said, etc.” The cry or proclamation of the king corresponded with the cry of Jonah. Where the prophet’s cry, calling to repentance, had reached, the proclamation of the king followed, obeying. “By the decree of the king and his nobles.” This is a hint of the political state of Nineveh, beyond what we have elsewhere. It was not then an absolute monarchy. At least, the king strengthened his command by that of his nobles, as Darius the Mede sealed the den of lions, into which Daniel was cast, with the signet of his lords as well as his own Daniel 6:17, “that the purpose might not be changed concerning him.”

Let neither man nor beast ... - ^o “Are brutes too then to fast, horses and mules to be clothed with sackcloth? Yes, he says. For as, when a rich man dies, his relatives clothe not only the men and maidservants, but the horses too with sackcloth, and, giving them to the grooms, bid that they should follow to the tomb, in token of the greatness of the calamity and inviting all to sympathy, so also when that city was about to perish, they clad the brute natures in sackcloth, and put them under the yoke of fasting. The irrational animals cannot, through words, learn the anger of God; let them learn through hunger, that the infliction is from God: for if, he says, the city should be overthrown, it would be one grave of us the inhabitants and of them also.” It was no arbitrary nor wanton nor careless act of the king of Nineveh to make the mute animals share in the common fast. It proceeded probably from an indistinct consciousness that God cared for them also, and, that “they” were not guilty. So the Psalmist looked on God’s care of His creatures as a fresh ground for man’s trust in Him Psalms 36:6-7, “O Lord, Thou preservest man and beast: How excellent is Thy lovingkindness, O Lord, therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings.” As our Lord teaches that God’s care of the sparrows is a pledge to man of God’s minute unceasing care for him, so the Ninevites felt truly that the cry of the poor brutes would be heard by God. And God confirmed that judgment, when He told Jonah of the “much cattle ,” as a ground for having pity on Nineveh. The moanings and lowings of the animals, their voices of distress, pierce man’s heart too, and must have added to his sense of the common misery. Ignorance or pride of human nature alone could think that man’s sorrow is not aided by these objects of sense. Nature was truer in the king of Nineveh.