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

A Changed Jonah Obeys God And Goes To Nineveh Proclaiming Its Overthrow Within Forty Days, With The Result That (To Jonah’s Chagrin) Nineveh Repents (Jonah 3:1-10 ). Jonah was no longer rebellious. He had learned his lesson. So when YHWH came to him again and told him to go to Nineveh to proclaim His word, Jonah did as he was bid. Unlike the seas and the fish he did it by free choice. And the consequence of his preaching was that the people of Nineveh repented deeply, and sought and found... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:3

‘So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days’ journey.’ Jonah, now obedient to YHWH, arose and went to Nineveh in accordance with His word. If ‘three days journey is the correct translation we are then told of the size of Nineveh. It was a ‘three days journey’, presumably in width. ‘Three days journey’ is a set phrase that indicates a relatively short journey in contrast with a longer one of ‘seven days journey’... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary 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 will be overthrown.” ’ Jonah entered the city, presumably Nineveh itself, and walked a short distance into it. ‘A day’s journey’ simply indicates a few miles in contrast with a ‘three days journey’. He would walk this while he was looking for a suitable place to preach. Or it may simply indicate ‘a quick visit’. And there he began to preach what YHWH had told him, “Yet forty days, and... read more

Arthur Peake

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

Jonah 3. The Ninevites Repent at the Preaching of Jonah.— When the prophet is bidden a second time to carry God’ s message to Nineveh, he knows that it is useless to disobey. Accordingly he takes the tidings that in forty days Nineveh will be destroyed. So huge was the city that three days would be spent in passing through it. Jonah advances one day’ s journey into the city and then announces its doom. His message meets with instant belief from the whole of the Ninevites. The king leaves his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:3

So, Heb. And; as God commands and directs, so Jonah with ready, resolved, and obedient mind sets about the work. Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh; though it was a long journey, yet three weeks’ or three months’ travel by land is more eligible than three days in the belly of hell. According to the word of the Lord; every way complying with the command of God, speeding thither resolved to preach whatsoever sermon God should put into his head, encouraged with assurance that God who did send... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:4

The former verse gives us intelligence of Jonah’s arrival at Nineveh; now, so soon as come, he preacheth. Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said; to walk through and to preach the dreadful threats of God against Nineveh, and he proclaimed openly and plainly what God commanded; he feared not to tell all what concerned all; he did it with earnestness, as deeply affected with what he spake from God against this mighty city. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be... read more

Joseph Exell

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

CRITICAL NOTES.] Jonah 3:3. Went] I am made wiser by correction. Great city] Lit. great to God. Some great through God, i.e. through his favour; others great before God. “It was most natural to refer the size of a city, of which the Hebrews could form no adequate conception, to the Divine estimation. I have accordingly rendered the words literally, as our preposition to is often used to note opinion, or estimate” [Henderson]. The Hebrews expressed superlative ideas by using the name of God,... read more

Joseph Exell

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

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