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Jonah 1:16

JONAH—NOTE ON Jonah 1:16 feared the LORD exceedingly. What started as a general fear (v. Jonah 1:5) grew into an intense fear (v. Jonah 1:10) and matured into the fear—that is, the reverent worship—of the Lord (v. Jonah 1:16).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 1:16. _OFFERED A SACRIFICE_] The first perhaps ever offered on board a vessel since the ark floated on the waters of the great deluge; and it is most probable that these heathens, witnessi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE MEN FEARED THE LORD WITH A GREAT FEAR - because, from the tranquility of the sea and the ceasing of the tempest, they saw that the prophet’s words were true. This great miracle completed the c...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Commission of the Prophet ,His Disobedience, and the Consequences _ 1. The commission (John 1:1) _ 2. The disobedience (John 1:3) 3. The consequences (John...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JONAH 1:1 TO JONAH 2:1; JONAH 2:10. JONAH VAINLY SEEKS TO EVADE THE MISSION TO WHICH GOD APPOINTS HIM. Jonah is bidden by Yahweh to proclaim judgment on Nineveh for its sin, but he hurries in the oppo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OFFERED, &c.. sacrificed: i.e. they vowed that they would offer [when they landed]. Hebrew. _zebach._ App-43....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _feared the Lord exceedingly_ They had feared exceedingly before (Jonah 1:10, where the Heb. expression is the same as here), but their fear then was vague and indefinite, now it recognised as its obj...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The openness of these heathens to religious impressions; the readiness with which they acknowledged Jehovah (hitherto to them an unknown God), and addressed no longer to their own gods (Jonah 1:5), bu...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jonah's Punishment. The Storm and its consequences No sooner does Jonah decide upon his course of action and think himself now secure of its accomplishment, than God arrests him by the judgment of th...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _GOD PREPARED A GREAT FISH -- JONAH 1:15-17:_ These mariners were more obedient than God's prophet. "They took up Jonah and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging." They were sincer...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND OFFERED A SACRIFICE, &C.— Houbigant, following the Hebrew, Vulgate, &c. ends the chapter with this verb....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING FROM GODTHE CHASTENING OF JEHOVAH TEXT: Jonah 1:11-17 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and mor...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. THEN THE MEN FEARED THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY, AND OFFERED A SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD, AND MADE VOWS - the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JONAH 2. Nineveh] the world-famous capital of Assyria, on the Tigris. For its wickedness cp. Nahum 3. 3. Jonah seeks to escape from the unwelcome task, both because he hates the N...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ INTRODUCTION The book does not say who wrote it. It is unlikely that Jonah was the author. This is because the story is not very favourable...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּֽירְא֧וּ הָ אֲנָשִׁ֛ים יִרְאָ֥ה גְדֹולָ֖ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE GREAT REFUSAL John 1:1 WE have now laid clear the lines upon which the Book of Jonah was composed. Its purpose is to illustrate God's grace to the heathen in face of His people's refusal to fulfi...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FLEEING FROM GOD AND DUTY John 1:1-16 Jonah is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25. He was clearly very patriotic, and did not despair of his country in its darkest days. This commission to Nineveh was theref...

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

    In narrating his own experience on his mission to Nineveh, Jonah intended to teach his people the lesson of the inclusiveness of the divine government, and thus to rebuke their exclusive attitude towa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then the men (l) feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. (l) They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true G...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lord. They were converted by this prodigy, and offered sacrifice immediately, or (Calmet) when they came to port. (Menochius) --- All know by the light of reason that sacrifice and vows are acceptabl...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is a beautiful part of the history. The modest enquiries of the mariners; the honesty of Jonah; the reluctances in the minds of the ship's-company to cast Jonah into the sea; their cry unto the L...

  • 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

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jonah now declares what fruit followed; and first, he says, that the sailors feared the true God. He uses here the proper name of God, Jehovah; for, as we have already seen, they were addicted to thei...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Introduction to Jonah Nineveh-which represents the world in its natural greatness, full of pride and iniquity, regardless of God and of His authority-had deserved the righteous judgment of God. This i...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE MEN FEARED THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY,.... This was not a natural fear, as before, but a religious one; and not a servile fear, or a fear of punishment, but a reverential godly fear; for they feare...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Ver. 16. _Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly_] Heb. with a great fear. They feared before, John 1...

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

    _Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly_ They were convinced of the power and greatness of that God whom Jonah worshipped: which appeared both in raising this storm, and in so suddenly laying it. _A...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the men, seeing in this sudden change of the weather the almighty hand of God, FEARED THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY AND OFFERED A SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD AND MADE VOWS, as men will under the stress of suc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JONAH AND THE SEA MONSTER...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OFFERED A SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD, AND MADE VOWS: _ Heb._ sacrifice unto the LORD, and vowed vows...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-17 The mariners rowed against wind and tide, the wind of God's displeasure, the tide of his counsel; but it is in vain to think of saving ourselves any other way than by destroying our sins. Even...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN, when they saw God approved the thing, and confirmed Jonah's word, as of a true prophet, and had spared them, the men, the seamen, and all others, if any others were in the ship, FEARED THE LORD;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 1:16 men H582 feared H3372 (H8799) LORD H3068 exceedingly H1419 H3374 offered H2076 (H8799) sacrifice...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then the men feared YHWH greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to YHWH, and made vows.' And the result was that the men recognised in YHWH a God Who had to be taken into account, and they paid Him du...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEARED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jonah 1:1. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    Therefore it never comes at all into notice here. When the mariners asked Jonah why he had done so, he was silent as to any justification of himself; their question is recorded, but not his answer, fo...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 5:17; Acts 5:11; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 6:26; Ecclesiastes 5:4;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JONAH, AND THE CALVARY MESSAGE Jonah 1:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The message of Calvary is not the message of historical Scriptures alone. Beyond doubt, the final Chapter s of the Gospels, and the Epis...

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