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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jonah 3:10

(10) And God repented.—See Note, Genesis 6:6.And he did it not.—As we are entirely ignorant of the nature of the threatened destruction, so are we also of the mode in which it was averted. Possibly some inscription throwing light on the book of Jonah may yet be discovered. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jonah 3:1-10

Repentance (For Ash Wednesday) Jonah 3:5 ; Jonah 3:10 Among all the passages in the picturesque narratives of the Old and New Testaments, there is none that, as a picture, is more wonderfully illustrative of the repentant life than is this. It brings before us three well-defined points. I. First, as to the cause which leads a man to repentance. The people of Nineveh are here said to have believed God. I want to submit to you that this curious statement about this people strikes one more... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

THE REPENTANCE OF THE CITYJonah 3:1-10HAVING learned, through suffering, his moral kinship with the ‘heathen, and having offered his life for some of them, Jonah receives a second command to go to Nineveh. He obeys, but with his prejudice as strong as though it had never been humbled, nor met by Gentile nobleness. The first part of his story appears to have no consequences in the second. But this is consistent with the writer’s purpose to treat Jonah as if he were Israel. For, upon their return... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jonah 3:1-10

CHAPTER 3 Jonah Preaching in Nineveh 1. The repeated commission and Jonah’s obedience (John 3:1-4 ) 2. The repentance and salvation of Nineveh (John 3:4-10 ) John 3:1-4 . And now after Jonah’s death and life experience the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, telling him to arise and go to Nineveh to preach there what the Lord would command him. And now he is obedient. Jonah arrived in the great city of three days’ journey, and advancing a day’s journey into it he cried out... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 3:10

3:10 And God saw their {h} works, that they turned from their evil way; and {i} God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.(h) That is, the fruits of their repentance, which proceeded from faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.(i) Read Geneva "Jeremiah 18:8" read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

A MISGUIDED PATRIOT LEARNS OBEDIENCE There is only one instance of Jonah’s prophesying to his own people of Israel, 2 Kings 14:25 . There he made a prediction concerning the restoration of the coasts of Israel, which was fulfilled in the reign of Jeroboam 2 about 800 B.C., showing that he lived earlier than that date. Of his personal history nothing further is known than what is found in this book. Jonah 1:0 Nineveh (Jonah 1:2 ) was the capital of Assyria, and the reason Jonah sought to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jonah 3:10

Who but must admire and adore the goodness and mercy of the Lord in this pardon to Nineveh. The change here mentioned is not in the Lord's mind, but in the Lord's providence. What is said through all the scriptures concerning the Lord's repenting of what he had before said he would, and doing it not, is meant to show the change by his grace wrought in man, and not the least, change in himself. See this doctrine more fully explained in my Commentary on Genesis 6:6 and Jeremiah 18:7-10 .... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:10

Mercy. Hebrew, "repented," as some copies of the Septuagint read, while others have, "was comforted." (Haydock) --- God suspended the stroke. But as the people soon relapsed, Sardanapalus burnt himself to death, and the city was taken, (St. Jerome) thirty-seven years after Jeroboam. (In the year of the world 3257, Usher) --- Yet this was only a prelude to its future ruin, foretold by Tobias, (xiv. 5. in Greek) and effected by Nabopolassar and Astyages. (Calmet) (In the year 3378, Usher) --- The... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:5-10

5-10 There was a wonder of Divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh. It condemns the men of the gospel generation, Matthew 12:41. A very small degree of light may convince men that humbling themselves before God, confessing their sins with prayer, and turning from sin, are means of escaping wrath and obtaining mercy. The people followed the example of the king. It became a national act, and it was necessary it should be so, when it was to prevent a national ruin. Let even the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jonah 3:1-10

Jonah's Message to the Ninevites and Its Results. The disobedient prophet had received a severe lesson at the hand of God, but he now profited by this lesson and was ready to undertake the commission which had originally been issued to him. v. 1. And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, v. 2. Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, the Assyrian capital and metropolis, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee, loudly proclaiming the message which the Lord... read more