Jonah 3:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jonah 3:1-4

We have here a further evidence of the reconciliation between God and Jonah, and that it was a thorough reconciliation, though the controversy between them had run high. I. Jonah's commission is renewed and readily obeyed. 1. By this it appears that God was perfectly reconciled to Jonah, that he employed him again in his service; and the commission anew given him was an evidence of the remission of his former disobedience. Among men, it has been justly pleaded that the giving of a commission... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jonah 3:5-10

Here is I. A wonder of divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh, upon the warning given them of their destruction approaching. Verily I say unto you, we have not found so great an instance of it, no, not in Israel; and it will rise up in judgment against the men of the gospel?generation, and condemn them; for the Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonas, but behold, a greater than Jonas is here, Matt. 12:41. Nay, it did condemn the impenitence and obstinacy of Israel at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:1

And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time ,.... Jonah having been scourged by the Lord for his stubbornness and disobedience, and being humbled under the mighty hand of God, is tried a second time, whether he would go on the Lord's errand, and do his business; and his commission is renewed, as it was necessary it should; for it would have been unsafe and dangerous for him to have proceeded upon the former without a fresh warrant; as the Israelites, when they refused entering... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:2

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city ,.... So it is called; See Gill on Jonah 1:2 . The order runs in the same words as before; and the same discouragements are presented to Jonah, taken from the greatness of the city, the number of its inhabitants, its being the metropolis of the Assyrian empire, and the seat of the greatest monarch on earth, to try his faith; but these had not the like effect as before; for he had now another spirit given him, not of fear, but of a sound mind; he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:3

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord ,.... He was no longer disobedient to the heavenly vision; being taught by the rod, he acts according to the word; he is now made willing to go on the Lord's errand, and do his business, under the influence of his power and grace; he stands not consulting with the flesh, but immediately arises and sets forward on his journey, as directed and commanded, being rid of that timorous spirit, and those fears, he was before... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey ,.... As soon as he came to it, he did not go into an inn, to refresh himself after his wearisome journey; or spend his time in gazing upon the city, and to observe its structure, and the curiosities of it; but immediately sets about his work, and proclaims what he was bid to do; and before he could finish one day's journey, he had no need to proceed any further, the whole city was alarmed with his preaching, was terrified with it, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 3:5

So the people of Nineveh believed God ,.... Or "in God" F18 באלהים "in Deum", V. L. : in the word of the Lord, as the Targum; they believed there was a God, and that he, in whose name Jonah came, was the true God; they believed the word the prophet spake was not the word of man, but, the word of God; faith came by hearing the word, which is the spring of true repentance, and the root of all good works. Kimchi and R. Jeshuah, in Aben Ezra, suppose that the men of the ship, in which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:1

And the word of the Lord - The same oracle as that before given; and which, from what he had felt and seen of the justice and mercy of the Lord, he was now prepared to obey. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:2

And preach unto it the preaching - הקריאה את וקרא vekera eth hakkeriah , "And cry the cry that I bid thee." Be my herald, and faithfully deliver my message. The word κηρυξ in Greek answers to the Hebrew קורא kore : both signifying a crier, a herald, a preacher; one that makes proclamation with a loud and earnest cry. Such was John Baptist, Isaiah 40:3 ; such was Jesus Christ, John 7:18-37; and such were all his apostles. And such earnestness becomes a ministry that has to do with... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 3:3

Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey - See on Jonah 1:2 ; (note). Strabo says, lib. xvi., πολυ μειζων ην της Βαβυλωνος , "it was much larger than Babylon:" and Ninus, the builder, not only proposed to make it the largest city of the world, but the largest that could be built by man. See Diodor. Sic. Bib. 50:2. And as we find, from the lowest computation, that it was at least fifty-four or sixty English miles in circumference, it would take the prophet three days to... read more

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