Jonah 3:5-9 ASV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:9

Who can tell . . ? Compare "Who knoweth . . . ? 2 Samuel 12:22 .Joel 2:14 . Jonah, for one, thought Jehovah might to so. Hence his reluctance to give Nineveh the opportunity to repent. if = [but that). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:5

"And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.""The people of Nineveh believed God ..." Actually, the Hebrew text in this would be better translated "believed in God," according to Barnes, who also made the distinction between the two expressions thus:"To believe God means to believe what God says, to be the truth; to believe in God expresses not belief only, but that belief resting and trusting in... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:6

"And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.""The tidings came to the king ..." What tidings? A thorough and accurate account of Jonah's miraculous deliverance, of course."We cannot imagine the people of Nineveh (including the king himself) having been motivated to fasting and cessation of violence and wickedness on the mere cry of impending ruin by a stranger of whom they were totally... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:7

"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."We shall not bother with noting various and sundry objections as to how Jonah might have known certain words used in this passage, such as robe, decree, etc. Jonah was an eyewitness of what he described in this passage; and the various unusual words used entered his vocabulary upon the same... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:8

"But let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.""Let them turn every man from his evil way ..." No matter how terribly the conscience of man may be seared, there must always remain within him some basic knowledge of what is right or wrong. It does not appear that Jonah elaborated the sins of the Ninevites; he did not need to do so; they already knew what... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:9

"Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?"The marvel of this repentance of the Ninevites is nowhere more evident than in this:They repented with no invitation to repent. They repented without promise that it would do any good if they did repent. They repented without any wish or hope on the part of the preacher that they would repent. They repented even in the face of Jonah's anger at their doing so. They repented en masse, from... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:5

Jonah 3:5. So the people of Nineveh believed God— The fame of the wonderful works which God had wrought for the Jews, was spread over the eastern parts of the world. This might induce the Ninevites to hearken to a man of that nation, who came to them as sent from God; especially as he, doubtless, gave them an account of the miraculous circumstances which attended his mission. But certainly a sense of their own guilt, and of their deserving whatever punishment heaven could inflict, was a... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:6

Jonah 3:6. For word came unto the king of Nineveh— For word had come, or, For the thing had reached unto, &c. This king most probably was Pul, the father of Sardanapalus, who, dying about the year of the world 3237, might have been upon the throne at the time when Jonah went to Nineveh; for this happened under Jeroboam the second. See Calmet, and Usher. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:7

Jonah 3:7. Let neither man nor beast—taste any thing— This was carrying their abstinence to a greater severity than what we find practised among the Jews; for though in times of public calamity, and on the day of solemn expiation, we find that they made their children fast, as we may gather from Joel 2:16.; yet we nowhere read of their extending that rigour to their cattle. Virgil indeed, in his fifth eclogue, brings in a shepherd telling his companion, that for the death of Julius Caesar the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:8

Jonah 3:8. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth— The covering of horses and mules with sackcloth adds to the solemnity of a funeral. In like manner, the mournful garb of the Ninevites was an affecting circumstance in this public sorrow and humiliation. See Houbigant. read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 3:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 3:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:7

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 3:8

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