Nineveh must be involved in war as God told Jonah, Peace, to preach to it. God wants the conflict to end. Verse 4, Nineveh is given word of their upcoming destruction in 40 days if they fail to stop fighting. Verse 6, when a king lays his robe off his shoulders represents stepping down as ruler. He sits in ashes because the time of his leadership is at an end. Symbolically to not eat or consume, meaning to fast, means to stop killing which is a time of cease fire. So to fast can have both literal and a symbolic military meaning. Verse 9, a peace treaty is to be agreed upon and the king is uncertain of the terms of peace and how they will affect his country. Verse 10, the planned destruction of Nineveh in verse 4 is now stopped as Nineveh has ceased to fight.
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