‘Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ the people of Nineveh reacted to this message of doom from Jonah by

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When Jonah warned the people of Nineveh about their impending destruction in forty days, they showed genuine signs of repentance. They believed the message, fasted, wore sackcloth, and even covered their animals in sackcloth as a sign of their sincere remorse for their sins. This impressed God and He spared them from the destruction.