Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jonah 3:6
The king — Probably Phul Belochus. His robe — Put off his rich apparel.
The king — Probably Phul Belochus. His robe — Put off his rich apparel.
Verse Jonah 3:6. _WORD CAME UNTO THE KING_] This, some think, was _Pul_; others, _Sardanapalus_ his son, king of Assyria, who flourished in the reign of Jeroboam the Second: but it seems more probable...
FOR WORD CAME - , rather, “And the matter came,” i. e., the “whole account,” as we say. “The word, word,” throughout Holy Scripture, as in so many languages stands for that which is reported of. “The...
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...
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...
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;...
_For word came unto_ Rather, AND THE TIDINGS REACHED, R.V. The introduction of the word "for" for "and" in A.V. is of the nature of a gloss. Our translators appear to have taken the view that Jonah 3:...
_THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED -- JONAH 3:6-8:_ Just Jonah saying those words, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" would likely not have brought about this change among the people. Ther...
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 wor...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING WITH GOD THE CONSEQUENCE OF REPENTANCE TEXT: Jonah 3:5-10 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of th...
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. FOR WORD CAME UNTO THE KING OF NINEVEH, AND HE...
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...
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...
FOR WORD CAME. — Rather, _And the matter reached._ The Authorised Version treats the royal edict that follows as the same with the _proclamation_ in Jonah 3:5. This is possible, but it is more probabl...
וַ יִּגַּ֤ע הַ דָּבָר֙ אֶל ־מֶ֣לֶך נִֽינְוֵ֔ה
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...
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...
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....
_King Sardanapalus, (Salien, in the year of the world 3216) or rather his father, Phul, whom Strabo calls Anacyndaraxes, (Calmet.) and who died in the year 3237, (Usher) four years after he had invade...
What! But the sovereign grace of God could have induced such effects! What nation, what kingdom or people shall we look to, for similar humblings, at the preaching of a poor despised Prophet? Do we no...
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...
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,...
It is uncertain whether Jonah had preached for some days in the city before it was known to the king. This is indeed the common opinion; for interpreters so expound the verse, which says that word was...
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...
FOR WORD CAME UNTO THE KING OF NINEVEH,.... Who was not Sardanapalus, a very dissolute prince, and abandoned to his lusts; but rather Pul, the same that came against Menahem king of Israel, 2 Kings 1...
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 Nineve...
_So the people of Nineveh believed God_, &c. “The fame,” says Lowth, “of the wonderful works God had wrought for the Jews, was spread over the eastern parts of the world. This might make the Ninevites...
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, into the neighborhood of whose palace the prophet had very likely progressed in his first day's journey, AND HE AROSE FROM HIS THRONE, symbol of his earthly pow...
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...
5-10 There was a wonder of Divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh. It condemns the men of the gospel generation, Matthew 12:41. A very small degree of light may convince men that h...
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...
Jonah 3:6 word H1697 came H5060 (H8799) king H4428 Nineveh H5210 arose H6965 (H8799) throne H3678 laid...
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...
‘And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.' The news of their response reached the king...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_So the people of Nineveh believed God._ BELIEF INSPIRED BY FEAR How came the Ninevites to believe God, as no hope of salvation was given them? For there can be no faith without an acquaintance with...
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
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 3:6 The WORD that REACHED THE KING OF NINEVEH was the “word” of the Lord (see Jonah 1:1;...
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...
EXPOSITION JONAH 3:1 Part III. JONAH'S PREACHING IN NINEVEH; THE REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES. Jonah 3:1
A spirit of reckless levity and unbelief might still have led the people to treat all with indifference, and to add to their other sins by rejecting the Lord's messenger as a false witness, and one th...
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...
Daniel 9:3; Esther 4:1; James 1:10; James 1:9; James 4:6;...
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...
Why does Jonah refer to the king of Assyria simply as the king of Nineveh? PROBLEM: Conservative scholars maintain that the Book of Jonah was written by the prophet Jonah who actually experienced the...