Jonah 3:10 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 3:10

God repenting. It is another people in Nineveh that God now looks down upon. These have "ceased to do evil." " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way." Then is the threatened doom to come? No; "God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." And yet in other Scriptures God is said not to repent. Words can only faintly portray a human friend. How feeble, then, are all words to declare God! Words that seem to us to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:10

And God saw their works - o “He did not then first see them; He did not then first see their sackcloth when they covered themselves with it. He had seen them long before He sent the prophet there, while Israel was slaying the prophets who announced to them the captivity which hung over them. He knew certainly, that if He were to send the prophets far off to the Gentiles with such an announcement, they would hear and repent.” God saw them, looked upon them, approved them, accepted the Ninevites... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 3:10

Jonah 3:10. And God saw their works He not only heard their good words, by which they professed repentance, but saw their good works, by which they brought forth fruits meet for repentance. He saw that they turned from their evil way And that was what he looked for and required. If he had not seen that, their fasting and sackcloth would have been as nothing in his account. Observe, reader, God takes notice of every instance of the reformation of sinners, even of those instances which... 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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:10

repented. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . of = concerning read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:10

"And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.""God repented ..." For a full discussion of the questions raised by this, see in the introduction under the subtitle, Purpose, in the last three or four paragraphs, above. All of God's promises, whether to bless or to destroy, in the last analysis, are conditional; and one of the purposes of Jonah is to exemplify that principle. See Jeremiah... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:10

10. God repented of the evil—When the message was sent to them, they were so ripe for judgment that a purpose of destruction to take effect in forty days was the only word God's righteous abhorrence of sin admitted of as to them. But when they repented, the position in which they stood towards God's righteousness was altered. So God's mode of dealing with them must alter accordingly, if God is not to be inconsistent with His own immutable character of dealing with men according to their works... 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 3:10

God noted the genuineness of the Ninevites’ repentance in their actions. These fruits of repentance moved Him to withhold the judgment that He would have sent on them had they persisted in their wicked ways. Repentance is essentially a change in one’s thinking. Change in one’s behavior indicates that repentance has taken place, but behavioral change is the fruit of repentance and is not all there is to repentance (cf. Matthew 3:7-10). Nineveh finally experienced overthrow in 612 B.C., about 150... 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 3:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 3:10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:10

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:10

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

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

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

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