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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jonah 3:4

Shall be overthrown — The threat is express. But there was a reserve with God, on condition of repentance.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 3:4. _YET FORTY DAYS_] Both the _Septuagint_ and _Arabic_ read _three_ days. Probably some early copyist of the _Septuagint_, from whom our modern editions are derived, mistook the Greek...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND JONAH BEGAN TO ENTER THE CITY A DAY’S JOURNEY - Perhaps the day’s journey enabled him to traverse the city from end to end, with his one brief, deep cry of woe; “Yet forty days and Nineveh overthr...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 Jonah Preaching in Nineveh _ 1. The repeated commission and Jonah's obedience (John 3:1) _ 2. The repentance and salvation of Nineveh (John 3:4) John 3:1. And now after Jonah's death and...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ti...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A. one cried. See note on "preach", Jonah 3:2. FORTY. The number of probation. See App-10....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Jonah began to enter into the city_ Calvin well brings out the moral grandeur of the scene which this verse so simply and briefly describes; the promptitude of Jonah's action, in entering without...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jonah 3:1-10. Jonah's Preaching and its result Sent a second time by God on a mission to Nineveh, Jonah promptly obeys, Jonah 3:1 _a_. He enters into Nineveh and delivers his message, Jonah 3:3;...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED-- JONAH 3:4-5:_ Jonah went a day's journey into the city of Nineveh and then began his preaching. It sounds as if he reached the thickly populated part of town and then...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YET FORTY DAYS, &C.— In most of the threats of God, there is always a condition expressed or understood. It is expressed Jeremiah 18:8. It is understood in the passage before us....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING WITH GODTHE CRY FOR REPENTANCE TEXT: Jonah 3:4 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. A DAY'S JOURNEY - not going straight forward without stopping: for t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REPENTANCE AND PARDON OF THE NINEVITES 3. An exceeding great city] lit. 'great unto God,' i.e. regarded as great by God: cp. Genesis 10:1. OF THREE DAYS' JOURNEY] i.e. in breadth. 8. Even the cattle...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 V1 Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time. V2 ‘Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Tell them the message that I shall...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND JONAH BEGAN TO ENTER INTO THE CITY A DAY’S JOURNEY. — This is apparently equivalent to _And Jonah entered the city, and walked for a day through it._ To enter on a minute inquiry as to whether his...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֤חֶל יֹונָה֙ לָ בֹ֣וא בָ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE REPENTANCE OF THE CITY John 3:1 HAVING learned, through suffering, his moral kinship with the ‘heathen, and having offered his life for some of them, Jonah receives a second command to go to Nine...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A REPENTANT CITY John 3:1-10 Peter was not only forgiven, but restored to his office; so also was Jonah again sent to Nineveh. Thank God for our second chances! There was no hesitancy this time. The...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately Jonah was again charged to go to Nineveh. There is a fine revelation of the patient grace of God toward His servant in the statement, "The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's (c) journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. (c) He went forward one day in the city and preached, and so he co...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Journey. He records what he said the first day, though he seems to have preached many (Theodoret) even during forty days, after which time (Haydock) he expected the city would fall, and therefore reti...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    According to all historians, this city was greater than Babylon, and yet in gross darkness respecting divine things. Reader! think of the mercies of our land! And then stand amazed at the wonderful su...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Jonah the Suicidal Evangelist I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of Jonah we limited ourselves to chapter 3 verses 1-2 - Jonah 3:1-2 (NASB) Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jonah here relates what had briefly been said before, — that he went to Nineveh according to the command of God. He shows then how faithfully he executed the duty enjoined on him, and thus obeyed the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    And now the second testimony begins. All that Israel could have been, all that belonged to man as responsible in himself, as far as testimony was concerned, has failed for ever. Christ Himself, the fa...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 ci...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. Ver. 4. _And Jonah began to enter into the city_] Having seen God he n...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey_ That is, he proceeded into the city as far as he could go in a day. _And he cried, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown_ The threat i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JONAH'S MESSAGE TO THE NINEVITES AND ITS RESULTS. The disobedient prophet had received a severe lesson at the hand of God, but he now profited by this lesson and was ready to undertake the commission...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, he commenced his trip through the various centers comprising the larger city, preaching wherever he found a suitable place and a fitting opportu...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 God employs Jonah again in his service. His making use of us is an evidence of his being at peace with us. Jonah was not disobedient, as he had been. He neither endeavoured to avoid hearing the c...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 3:4 Jonah H3124 began H2490 (H8686) enter H935 (H8800) city H5892 first H259 days H3117 walk...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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 sho...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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). Jonah was no longer rebellious. He had...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 pro...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jonah 3:1. _And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee._ There is no preaching like th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jonah's second commission. Ninevah's repentance because of his obedience. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah, King of Nineveh. CONCLUSION: Those who would not destroy their souls must afflict their so...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown._ THE KNELL OF NINEVEH Sardanapalus puts off his jewelled array, and puts on mourning, and the whole city goes down on its knees, and street cries to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 3:3 Jonah and the Pagan Ninevites. The fifth episode parallels the second (Jonah 1:4) and focuses on how the pagan Ninevites, just like the pagan sailors, respond

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 3:4 YET FORTY DAYS, AND NINEVEH SHALL BE OVERTHROWN! Although the warning sounds like a promise, a condition was implied. If the people repent, God will relent (see v. Jona

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 King...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 re...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JONAH 3:1 Part III. JONAH'S PREACHING IN NINEVEH; THE REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES. Jonah 3:1

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER VI. THE NEW COMMISSION GIVEN TO JONAH, AND THE WONDERFUL RESULTS THAT FLOWED FROM ITS EXECUTION THE sojourn of Jonah for a time in the deep waters, and his singular experience there, having be...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So 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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:22; Jeremiah 18:7; Jon

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ON TO NINEVEH Jonah 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Our opening verse says, "The Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time." These words bring to us the thought of a second chance. We are reminded...

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