he or she says—it shows an even higher level of trust in their word; you believe them! c. This is how faith was sometimes described: (1) ‘Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness’ (Gen. 15:6). (2) ‘The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth’ (Jonah 3:5). Note: it might have read that ‘the Ninevites believed Jonah’ for he had proclaimed, ‘Forty more days and Nineveh will be destroyed’ (Jonah 3:4).
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