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Jonah 3:7,8

JONAH—NOTE ON Jonah 3:7 issued a proclamation. It is likely that v. Jonah 3:5 and vv. Jonah 3:6 are in topical rather than chronological order. By putting the people’s response ahead of the king’s order, the author underscores that they are responding to Jonah’s message, not just to the king’s command. The Ninevites each turn from his evil way, whereas the Israelites did not (see 2 Kings 17:13).

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See also Jonah 3:7,8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HE CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED AND PUBLISHED THROUGH NINEVEH; - literally, “And he cried and said, etc.” The cry or proclamation of the king corresponded with the cry of Jonah. Where the prophet’s...

  • 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

    NOBLES. great. ones. MAN. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14. HERD NOR FLOCK. See note on "that great city", Jonah 3:2, and "much cattle", Jonah 4:11,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and published_ This word is not a participle, though likely to be taken for one in the A.V. It is literally, " AND HE CAUSED A PROCLAMATION TO BE MADE, AND SAID, &c. _the decree_ The word here used i...

  • 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 3:6-8:_ 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor dr...

  • 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 HE CAUSED... — The fact that the word rendered “decree” in this verse was a technical name for the edicts of Assyrian and Babylonian kings (see Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:29) would alone vouch for the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּזְעֵ֗ק וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ בְּ נִֽינְוֵ֔ה מִ

  • 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 he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor (e) beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, n...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Princes. Their consent was requisite, to form an irrevocable edict, Daniel vi. 8. --- Men. Even infants, according to the Fathers, Joel ii. 16. St. Basil adds also, the young of cattle. This was done...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    But it seems strange, and even ridiculous, that the king should bid animals, as well as men, to make a confession of repentance; for penitence is a change in man, when he returns to God after having b...

  • 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 HE CAUSED [IT] TO BE PROCLAIMED AND PUBLISHED THROUGH NINEVEH,.... By a herald or heralds, sent into the several parts of the city: BY THE DECREE OF THE KING AND HIS NOBLES; with whom he consulte...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor d...

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

    _Let neither man nor beast taste any thing_ This was ordered to add the greater solemnity to the humiliation, and that men might be affected by the mournful cries of the cattle under such restraints,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, the royal heralds being dispatched in accordance with the custom of making edicts of this kind...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PUBLISHED: _ Heb._ said NOBLES: _ Heb._ great men...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND HE, THE KING, CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED; took a particular care to have speedily a fast ordered, and notified to the people by those public officers who were wont to proclaim the decrees and edic...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 3:7 proclaimed H2199 (H8686) published H559 (H8799) Nineveh H5210 decree H2940 king H4428 nobles H1419 saying...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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 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

    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...

  • 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 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21; Joel 1:18; Joel 2:15; Joel 2:16;...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Taste any thing — Man and beast are to forbear to eat and drink, that the fast might be most solemn, that the cry of man, seconded with the cry of hungry cattle, might enter the ears of God, who prese...

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