E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:4
a = one cried. See note on "preach", Jonah 3:2 . forty. The number of probation. See App-10 . read more
요나 3:3-4 Krv
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:3
"So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days journey.""So Jonah arose and went ..." As we detected in the psalm-prayer, Jonah still entertained a deep prejudice against the pagan worshippers of idols; and Smith may be correct in his remark that, "He obeyed, but with his prejudice as strong as though it had never been humbled, nor met by Gentile nobleness."[5]"Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city ..." "The past... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:4
"And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.""Began to enter into the city ..." This says nothing about Jonah's going a whole day's journey into Nineveh and then starting to preach, but points out the fact that as he "started" the day's journey into Nineveh, he began to cry the cry that God gave him. This mention of a "day's journey" in this verse "must not be understood as relating either to the diameter or... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:3
Jonah 3:3. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city— The account here given of Nineveh is confirmed by the testimony of heathen authors. Strabo says, that Nineveh was much greater even than Babylon: and Diodorus Siculus affirms, that its builder, Ninus, proposed to build a city of such magnitude, that it should not only be the greatest of the cities which were then in the world; but that none of those who should be born after that time, attempting the like, should easily exceed it: and a little... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:4
Jonah 3:4. Yet forty days, &c.— In most of the threats of God, there is always a condition expressed or understood. It is expressed Jeremiah 18:8. It is understood in the passage before us. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:3
3. arose and went—like the son who was at first disobedient to the father's command, "Go work in my vineyard," but who afterwards "repented and went" (Matthew 21:28; Matthew 21:29). Jonah was thus the fittest instrument for proclaiming judgment, and yet hope of mercy on repentance to Nineveh, being himself a living exemplification of both—judgment in his entombment in the fish, mercy on repentance in his deliverance. Israel professing to obey, but not obeying, and so doomed to exile in the same... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 3:4
4. a day's journey—not going straight forward without stopping: for the city was but eighteen miles in length; but stopping in his progress from time to time to announce his message to the crowds gathering about him. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown—The commission, given indefinitely at his setting out, assumes now on his arrival a definite form, and that severer than before. It is no longer a cry against the sins of Nineveh, but an announcement of its ruin in forty days. This... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:1-4
A. Jonah’s proclamation to the Ninevites 3:1-4God gave Jonah a second chance to obey Him, as He has many of His servants (e.g., Peter, John Mark, et al.). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:3
Having learned that he must fulfill the Lord’s commission or suffer the most unpleasant consequences, Jonah this time obeyed and traveled east to Nineveh rather than west (cf. Jonah 1:3). For all he knew, he might end up impaled on a pole or skinned alive, which is how the Assyrians often dealt with their enemies. Nevertheless, such a fate was preferable to suffering divine discipline again.The writer’s description that Nineveh "was" a great city has led some interpreters to conclude that it... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:3
three days, &c. i.e. in circuit. read more