Jonah 3:7 {6}
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And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

caused.

Jonah 3:5 And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

2 Chronicles 20:3 And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.

Ezra 8:21 And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

Joel 2:15,16 Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, . . .

published.

Joel 1:18 Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.

Romans 8:20-22 For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. . . .

Context
Nineveh Repents
6And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. 7And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.8And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:3
And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.

Ezra 8:21
And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

Jonah 3:5
And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

Lexicon
Then he issued a proclamation
וַיַּזְעֵ֗ק (way·yaz·‘êq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2199: To shriek, to announce, convene publicly

in Nineveh:
בְּנִֽינְוֵ֔ה (bə·nî·nə·wêh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5210: Nineveh -- capital of Assyr

“By the decree
מִטַּ֧עַם (miṭ·ṭa·‘am)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2940: A taste, perception, intelligence, a mandate

of the king
הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

and his nobles:
וּגְדֹלָ֖יו (ū·ḡə·ḏō·lāw)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1419: Great, older, insolent

Let no
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

man
הָאָדָ֨ם (hā·’ā·ḏām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

or beast,
וְהַבְּהֵמָ֜ה (wə·hab·bə·hê·māh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

herd
הַבָּקָ֣ר (hab·bā·qār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

or flock,
וְהַצֹּ֗אן (wə·haṣ·ṣōn)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

taste
יִטְעֲמוּ֙ (yiṭ·‘ă·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2938: To taste, to perceive

anything at all.
מְא֔וּמָה (mə·’ū·māh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3972: A speck, point, nothing

They must not
אַ֨ל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

eat
יִרְע֔וּ (yir·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

or drink.
יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃ (yiš·tū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8354: To imbibe


Additional Translations
Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.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:

And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king an by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

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 anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;

And he made proclamation 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:

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:

He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

and he crieth and saith in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, 'Man and beast, herd and flock -- let them not taste anything, let them not feed, even water let them not drink;
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