"The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the le

The inhabitants of Nineveh were notoriously idolatrous and violent. Israelites thought they were the lowest of the low. But when they heard Jonah preach, they believed his message was from God and they repented wholeheartedly. No person or group ever falls so low as to be beyond God God's merciful reach.