from the greatest to the least of them.” Verse 10 concludes the chapter saying, “Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.” Clearly the Ninevites repented when they turned from their evil way. Their repentance was not a change of mind about themselves and God. They believed God when through Jonah He said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” (Jonah 3:4). What then