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Verse Jonah 3:9. _WHO CAN TELL_ IF _GOD WILL TURN AND REPENT_] There
is at least a peradventure for our salvation. God _may_ turn towards
us, change his purpose, and save us alive. While there is lif...
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WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN AND REPENT? - The Ninevites use the same
form of words, which God suggested by Joel to Judah. Perhaps He would
thereby indicate that He had Himself put it into their mout...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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;...
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_Who can tell_ Comp. Joel 2:14, where the Hebrew is the same. Calvin
well explains the doubtful form assumed by the king's decree. "How can
it be," he asks, "that the king of Nineveh repented earnestl...
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_GOD REPENTED OR CHANGED HIS MIND -- JONAH 3:9-10:_ The message was,
"You must also pray to the Lord God with all your heart and stop being
sinful and cruel. Maybe God will change his mind and have me...
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DISCOURSE: 1201
REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES [Note: A Fast Sermon.]
John 3:8. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth; and cry
mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and...
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AND REPENT— _And revoke his sentence._ Houbigant. And so in the next
verse, _God revoked his sentence, and brought not upon them the evil
which he was about to do unto them._ See the note on Genesis 6...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING WITH GOD THE CONSEQUENCE OF REPENTANCE
TEXT: Jonah 3:5-10
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And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of th...
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN AND REPENT, AND TURN AWAY FROM HIS
FIERCE ANGER, THAT WE PERISH NOT?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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(g) Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
(g) For partly from the threatening of the prophet, and partly from
his own conscience, he dou...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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The mind and design of the king are here more distinctly stated, —
that he thus endeavored to reconcile himself and the people to God.
Some give a rendering somewhat different, “He who knows will turn...
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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...
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WHO CAN TELL,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions prefix to this
the word "saying", and take them to be, not the words of the king, but
of the Ninevites; though very wrongly: or "who is he that kno...
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Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
Ver. 9. _Who can tell if God will turn and repent_] This is the
speech of one that doubteth and ye...
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_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,...
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, the possibility of His doing
so being suggested by His interest in sending a prophet to warn them,
AND TURN AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER THAT WE PERISH NOT? It...
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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...
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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...
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Here is the ground of the Ninevites fasting and praying, there is a
possibility that they may escape; there is fairly argued a
probability, for why should the ruin beforehand be threatened, but to
giv...
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Jonah 3:9 tell H3045 (H8802) God H430 turn H7725 (H8799) relent H5162
(H8738) away H7725 (H
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“Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from
his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
The hope then was that God (Elohim) would also ‘turn and repent' in
His attitude towards them...
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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...
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REPENT
(_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_Who can tell if God will turn?_
PEACE HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED
During the Civil War in America some soldiers of the Southern Army
deserted, and found themselves caught in a wood between their own
regimen...
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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
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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 3:9 WHO KNOWS? expresses hope that GOD MAY TURN
AND RELENT. The phrase WE MAY NOT PERISH marks the third time a pagan
has been concerned that people not perish (compare...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
JONAH 3:1
Part III. JONAH'S PREACHING IN NINEVEH; THE REPENTANCE OF THE
NINEVITES.
Jonah 3:1
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4. The last step in a true repentance the return in faith and
confidence to God is also represented to have been taken by the
Ninevites. Without this their repentance could certainly not have been
com...
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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...
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2 Samuel 12:22; Amos 5:15; Joel 2:13; Joel 2:14; Jonah 1:6;...
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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...