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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 3:4

3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s {c} journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.(c) He went forward one day in the city and preached, and so he continued until the city was converted. 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 3:3-4

According to all historians, this city was greater than Babylon, and yet in gross darkness respecting divine things. Reader! think of the mercies of our land! And then stand amazed at the wonderful subject of our abuse of them, and the Lord's forbearance! I admire the faithfulness of Jonah. See how the Lord can, and the Lord doth, and will, strengthen his people! read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:4

Journey. He records what he said the first day, though he seems to have preached many (Theodoret) even during forty days, after which time (Haydock) he expected the city would fall, and therefore retired out of the walls, chap. iv. --- Forty. Septuagint three. St. Justin Martyr, (Dialogue with Trypho) "three, or forty-three." Theodoret thinks that the mistake was made by some ancient transcriber, and has since prevailed in all the copies of the Septuagint. All the rest have forty. St.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:1-4

1-4 God employs Jonah again in his service. His making use of us is an evidence of his being at peace with us. Jonah was not disobedient, as he had been. He neither endeavoured to avoid hearing the command, nor declined to obey it. See here the nature of repentance; it is the change of our mind and way, and a return to our work and duty. Also, the benefit of affliction; it brings those back to their place who had deserted it. See the power of Divine grace, for affliction of itself would rather... 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

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jonah 3:1-10

CHAPTER 3[The Renewal of Jonah’s Commission (Jonah 3:1-2). His Preaching to the Ninevites (Jonah 3:3-4). Humiliation and Reformation of the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5-9) Reversal of the Divine Sentence (Jonah 3:10).—C. E.]1And the word of the Lord [Jehovah] came [was communicated] unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto 3it the preaching [make the proclamation to it] that I bid thee. So [And] Jonah arose, and went unto [to] Nineveh, according to... read more