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The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 3:6

A king's contrition. It is an illustration of the power of truth, of the commanding majesty of the faithful and fearless preacher, which we witness in this narrative. An unknown Hebrew, with nothing to recommend him, nothing to enforce attention, comes to a foreign city, passes through the public places, reproaches the citizens for their sins, denounces destruction upon the inhabitants as the punishment due to them because of their wickedness. And what is the result? Is it neglect, or... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:6

For word came - , rather, “And the matter came,” i. e., the “whole account,” as we say. “The word, word,” throughout Holy Scripture, as in so many languages stands for that which is reported of. “The whole account,” namely, how this stranger, in strange austere attire, had come, what had happened to him before he came, how he preached, how the people had believed him, what they had done, as had just been related, “came to the king.” The form of words implies that what Jonah relates in this... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 3:5-6

Jonah 3:5-6. So the people of Nineveh believed God, &c. “The fame,” says Lowth, “of the wonderful works God had wrought for the Jews, was spread over the eastern parts of the world. This might make the Ninevites hearken to a man of that nation, that came to them as sent by God. And it is likely that he gave them an account of the miraculous circumstances which attended his own mission. But, without question, a sense of their own guilt, and their deserving whatever punishment Heaven... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

3:1-4:11 THE NINEVITES’ REPENTANCEJonah’s preaching in Nineveh (3:1-10)God repeated his command to Jonah to go and preach in Nineveh, and this time Jonah obeyed (3:1-3). God’s message was that within forty days Nineveh would, because of its wickedness, be overthrown. The Ninevites, leaders and common people alike, heeded the warning and turned in repentance to God (4-5). The king even issued a decree commanding a moral reformation in the city (6-9). As a result of the Ninevites’ repentance, God... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:6

"And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.""The tidings came to the king ..." What tidings? A thorough and accurate account of Jonah's miraculous deliverance, of course."We cannot imagine the people of Nineveh (including the king himself) having been motivated to fasting and cessation of violence and wickedness on the mere cry of impending ruin by a stranger of whom they were totally... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:6

Jonah 3:6. For word came unto the king of Nineveh— For word had come, or, For the thing had reached unto, &c. This king most probably was Pul, the father of Sardanapalus, who, dying about the year of the world 3237, might have been upon the throne at the time when Jonah went to Nineveh; for this happened under Jeroboam the second. See Calmet, and Usher. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:6

6. in ashes—emblem of the deepest humiliation (Job 2:8; Ezekiel 27:30). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:5-10

B. The Ninevites’ repentance 3:5-10Jonah’s proclamation moved the Ninevites to humble themselves and seek divine mercy."Although Nineveh was not overturned, it did experience a turn around." [Note: Alexander, p. 121.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:6

Jonah 3:5 could be a general record of the response of the Ninevites and Jonah 3:6-9 a more detailed account of what happened. Even the king responded by repenting. The king of Nineveh would probably have been the king of Assyria since Nineveh was a leading city of the empire. Similarly King Ahab of Israel was the "king of Samaria" (1 Kings 21:1), King Ahaziah of Israel was the "king of Samaria" (2 Kings 1:3), and King Ben-hadad of Aram was the "king of Damascus" (2 Chronicles 24:23). However... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:1-10

Repentance and Pardon of the Ninevites3. An exceeding great city] lit. ’great unto God,’ i.e. regarded as great by God: cp. Genesis 10:1.Of three days’ journey] i.e. in breadth.8. Even the cattle join in the mourning. Neglected by their owners, they fill the air with their groanings. Cp. Joel 1:20, ’The beasts of the field pant unto thee,’ and for an interesting parallel, Judith 4:9-15. The Persians are said, by Herodotus, to have clipped the hair of the horses and baggage animals that they... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 3:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 3:5-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:5-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:6

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:1-10

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