Jonah 1:16 WEB

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jonah 1:11-17

Jonah and The Sea Monster v. 11. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee that the sea may be calm unto us? What would Jonah himself suggest or advise in order to turn away the wrath of God from those who were not implicated in his guilt?. For the sea wrought, continued to rage, and was tempestuous, still rising in angry billows. v. 12. And he said unto them, showing the right spirit in offering himself up as a sacrifice in their behalf, Take me up and cast me forth into the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jonah 1:1-17

CHAPTER 1[The Prophet’s Commission to preach against Nineveh, and his Attempt to evade it (Jonah 1:1-3). A Voilent Storm arises; Alarm of the Sailors; Means adopted for their Safety; Detection of Jonah; he is thrown into the Sea, and is swallowed by a Fish (Jonah 1:4-16).—C. E.]1Now [And] the word of the Lord [Jehovah] came unto [was communicated to] Jonah , 1 the son of Amittai.2 2Arise,3 go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry4 [proclaim] 3against it; for5 their wickedness is [has] come up... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Jonah 1:1-17

Jonah GUILTY SILENCE AND ITS REWARD Jon_1:1 - Jon_1:17 . Jonah was apparently an older contemporary of Hosea and Amos. The Assyrian power was looming threateningly on the northern horizon, and a flash or two had already broken from that cloud. No doubt terror had wrought hate and intenser narrowness. To correct these by teaching, by an instance drawn from Assyria itself, God’s care for the Gentiles and their susceptibility to His voice, was the purpose of Jonah’s mission. He is a prophet of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Jonah 1:1-16

Fleeing from God and Duty John 1:1-16 Jonah is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25 . He was clearly very patriotic, and did not despair of his country in its darkest days. This commission to Nineveh was therefore not to his taste, because he had no desire to see the great heathen city brought to her knees. Another century would have to pass before Isaiah and Micah would proclaim that the heathen world would turn to God, Micah 4:1 ; Isaiah 2:2 . Rather than go upon this errand of mercy, Jonah hurried... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jonah 1:1-17

In narrating his own experience on his mission to Nineveh, Jonah intended to teach his people the lesson of the inclusiveness of the divine government, and thus to rebuke their exclusive attitude toward surrounding peoples. The Book naturally falls into two parts. In this first division we have the prophet's account of Jehovah's command, his disobedience, and the divine interposition. Evidently he had no doubt that the command was from Jehovah. The charge to deliver a message to a city outside... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:12-17

Jonah, and the Calvary Message Jonah 1:12-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The message of Calvary is not the message of historical Scriptures alone. Beyond doubt, the final chapters of the Gospels, and the Epistles and the Revelation all speak of the death of Christ, but they never speak of it as of some exigency that came upon Christ Jesus unawares. The four Gospels do, we grant, show a growing antagonism to the Lord on the part of the leaders of the Jews. This hatred grew rapidly as the Cross... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:16

‘Then the men feared YHWH greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to YHWH, and made vows.’ And the result was that the men recognised in YHWH a God Who had to be taken into account, and they paid Him due awed reverence, and offered a sacrifice to Him, and made vows, presumably vowing to continue to honour Him in the future. This would no doubt be done once they had landed, possibly by a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thus Jonah, who had fled because he did not want to take the message of YHWH to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:1-17

Jonah 1:1 to Jonah 2:1 , Jonah 2:10 . Jonah vainly Seeks to Evade the Mission to which God Appoints Him.— Jonah is bidden by Yahweh to proclaim judgment on Nineveh for its sin, but he hurries in the opposite direction, to Tarshish (p. 381). Why he refused to proclaim such congenial tidings appears only in the sequel ( Jonah 4:2). In a very striking way the author indicates the intellectual limitation of Jonah’ s conception of Yahweh. “ He rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 1:16

Then, when they saw God approved the thing, and confirmed Jonah’s word, as of a true prophet, and had spared them, the men, the seamen, and all others, if any others were in the ship, feared the Lord; with a deep reverence of his power, wisdom, and justice against Jonah, and of his mercy towards them. What was the final effect of this, and whether they were by it thoroughly turned to God, I inquire not now; it may best become our charity, that as Jonah’s casting overboard was type of Christ’s... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 1:11-17

CRITICAL NOTES.] Jonah 1:11. The sea] “Not only increasingly tempestuous, but, like a thing alive and obeying its Master’s will, it was holding on its course, its wild waves tossing themselves and marching on in battalions arrayed for the end for which they were sent, pursuing and demanding the runaway slave of God” [Pusey]. Jonah 1:12.] Jonah reads out his doom, conscious of being the cause of suffering and peril. Cast me] Suicide and guilt to have done it himself. I know] i.e. am well aware.... read more