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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:7-8

‘And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water, but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God, yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.” The king issued an official proclamation calling on the people, along with their domestic animals, to fast 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 3:6

This now accounteth for the people’s proclaiming a fast, Jonah 3:5, they did it because it was commanded, and they had the king’s example herein. Word came to the king: whether Jonah did particularly speak to his hearers to send word to the king, or whether the strangeness of the thing might move some or other to report it to the courtiers, and they to the king, is not specified; certain it is that the king had word brought him, and it was considered by him: nor is it said who this king was;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:7

And he, the king, caused it to be proclaimed; took a particular care to have speedily a fast ordered, and notified to the people by those public officers who were wont to proclaim the decrees and edicts of the king and his council. And published: this ingemination confirms the thing, and adds somewhat for showing the deep sense the king had both of his oral and his people’s sins, danger, and duty in this exigent. By the decree of the king and his nobles; it was an act of the king and council,... 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

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 3:6

Jon 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Ver. 6. For word came unto the king of Nineveh ] I can hardly believe that this was Sardanapalus, as some will carry it, but some other better prince, that, Vespasian-like, was patientissimus veri, very tolerant of the truth, one that had those about him that would tell him the truth of things, and he was content to hear it, and... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:7-8

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:7

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

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1-10

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Jonah 3:5-9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jonah 3:6

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