요나 3:3-4 KRV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 3:4

The traditional view holds that after Jonah arrived at the edge of the city he proceeded into it and began announcing his message during his first day there. [Note: Ellison, "Jonah," p. 381; Keil, 1:405.] Alternatively, he may have done his first day’s preaching to the king and perhaps also to some of the people. The essence of his proclamation was that Nineveh would be overthrown in only 40 days. Periods of testing in Scripture were often 40 days long (cf. Genesis 7:17; Exodus 24:18; 1 Kings... 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

Charles John Ellicott

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

(3) Now Nineveh was . . .—The past tense here certainly seems to imply that at the time in which the author wrote the city was no longer in existence, but the force of a Hebrew tense is not to be estimated by the analogy of modern languages.An exceeding great city.—Literally, A city great to God; an expression equivalent to a divinely great city, and taken, as Ewald thinks, from the language of the people, like the Arabic “to Allah,” in the saying “to Allah (i.e., divine) is he that composed... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jonah 3:4

(4) And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey.—This is apparently equivalent to And Jonah entered the city, and walked for a day through it. To enter on a minute inquiry as to whether his course was straight or circuitous seems trivial. The writer has no thought of furnishing data for ascertaining the exact dimensions of Nineveh, but only of producing a general sense of its vast size.Yet forty days.—The conciseness of the original, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh overthrown,” forcibly... 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 3:3

3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding {b} great city of three days’ journey.(b) Read Geneva (c) "Jonah 1:2" 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