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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

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 3:8

3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and {f} cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.(f) He exhorted that the men should earnestly call to God for mercy. 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 3:5-9

What! But the sovereign grace of God could have induced such effects! What nation, what kingdom or people shall we look to, for similar humblings, at the preaching of a poor despised Prophet? Do we not see in it the Lord's Almighty hand disposing all orders of the people to this conduct! 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

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