Jonás 3:5, Jonás 3:6 NVI

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 3:4-10

CRITICAL NOTES.] Jonah 3:5. Believed] Lit. in God, in his word; trusted in him. Sackcloth] The attire of deep mourning, irritating to the body. Fasting and sackcloth customary in humiliation (1 Kings 21:27; Joel 1:13). Penitence universal. Jonah 3:6. Word] The matter; report of Jonah’s preaching, and its effects in the city. Nineveh never so moved and shaken. Laid aside] The king approved the proclaimed fast, disdained not to follow the example of the people, but humbled himself with them in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

Jonah 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the prophet's burial and resurrection. When the Jews asked for a sign He refused it, (i) because it was presumptuous to ask it; (ii) because they were blind to actual signs already given and constantly existing before their eyes; (iii) because the very demand was a proof of deep ungodliness, and the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:5

John 3:5 I. Our Lord tells us that "Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites." He was a sign (1) of the impartiality and inflexibility of the Divine justice. Prophet though he was, raised to a higher place of life than common men, admitted to a knowledge of some of the secrets of the Divine government of the world; in favour, as might be supposed, in the celestial court, he no sooner swerves and turns from the way of obedience, than God turns upon him the arrestive and vindicative powers of His... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

Chapter 3So the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh ( Jonah 3:1-3 ),God brings us back so many times to the place of failure, and that is where we start again. I call it oftentimes back to zero. I wonder how many times God has brought me back to zero, back to that place of failure and then He says, "Okay." And there is where we start again. I can't... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 3:1-10

Jonah 3:4 . Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. The LXX read “three days,” and they are followed by most of the Greek fathers. But three days is thought to be an error of the scribe, for the Hebrew, the Chaldaic, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotian have forty days. Justin Martyr also, in his dialogue with Trypho the Jew, reads the same. read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jonah 3:5-9

John 3:5-9So the people of Nineveh believed God.Belief inspired by fearHow came the Ninevites to believe God, as no hope of salvation was given them? For there can be no faith without an acquaintance with the paternal kindness of God; whoever regards God as angry with, him must necessarily despair. Since, then, Jonah gave them no knowledge of God’s mercy he must have greatly terrified the Ninevites, and not have called them to faith. The answer is, that the expression is to be taken as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jonah 3:5

Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. Ver. 5. So the people of Nineveh believed God ] See the mighty power of God’s holy word. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds," 2 Corinthians 10:4 , to the laying flat those walls of Jericho, making the devil fall as lightning from the heaven of men’s hearts, Luke 10:18 . These... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jonah 3:5

believed: Exodus 9:18-Ecclesiastes :, Matthew 12:41, Luke 11:32, Acts 27:25, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:7 and proclaimed: 2 Chronicles 20:3, Ezra 8:21, Jeremiah 36:9, Joel 1:14, Joel 2:12-Esther : from: Jeremiah 31:34, Jeremiah 42:1, Jeremiah 42:8, Acts 8:10 Reciprocal: Genesis 37:34 - General Exodus 9:20 - General Leviticus 23:2 - proclaim Judges 20:26 - wept 1 Kings 20:31 - put sackcloth 2 Chronicles 20:13 - all Judah Nehemiah 9:1 - children Isaiah 37:1 - he rent Isaiah 58:5 - to spread... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jonah 3:5

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.From the greatest — Great and small, rich and poor. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:1-10

JONAH’S PREACHING AND NINEVEH’S REPENTANCE, Jonah 3:1-10. Jehovah repeats the command to Jonah, to preach to Nineveh (Jonah 3:1-2). This time Jonah obeys and delivers the message, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jonah 3:3-4). The preaching results in the conversion of king and people, who give every evidence of heartfelt repentance (Jonah 3:5-9); whereupon Jehovah withholds the judgment (Jonah 3:10). read more