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THEN WERE THE MEN EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID - Before, they had feared the
tempest and the loss of their lives. Now they feared God. They feared,
not the creature but the Creator. They knew that what they had...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Why hast thou done this_?] Rather, WHAT IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE?
A question not of enquiry, but of amazement and reproach. Comp.
Genesis 4:10....
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_WHY HAST THOU DONE THIS -- JONAH 1:4-10:_ God sent a very violent
wind that was about to destroy the boat that Jonah was in. Jonah
learned "the hard way" that it is a terrible mistake to run from God...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING FROM GODTHE CONTRARIETY OF JONAH
TEXT: Jonah 1:3-10
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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah;
and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going...
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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast
thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the
LORD, because he had told them.
THEN WERE THE MEN EXCEEDINGL...
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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...
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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...
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WHY HAST. — Rather, _What is this that thou hast done?_ The question
expresses horror, not curiosity.
FOR THE MEN KNEW THAT. — Jonah’s answer in Jonah 1:9 is evidently
intended only as an abbreviatio...
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וַ יִּֽירְא֤וּ הָֽ אֲנָשִׁים֙
יִרְאָ֣ה גְדֹולָ֔ה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Sleeper
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we began our study of the book of Jonah.
1. As usual, we did a brief background study and you might remember
that I shared with you that this little b...
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It then follows, that the men feared with great fear, and said, _Why
hast thou done this? _(26) for they knew that he had fled from the
presence of Jehovah, for he had told them. And this is not unimp...
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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...
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THEN WERE THE MEN EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID,.... When they found he was a
Hebrew, and that it was the God of the Hebrews that was angry; of whom
they had heard much, and what great and wonderful things had b...
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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou
done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the
LORD, because he had told them.
Ver. 10. _Then were the men ex...
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_And he said, I am a Hebrew_ One descended from Heber, whose offspring
by Abraham are well known. _And I fear the Lord_ Or rather JEHOVAH,
_the God of heaven_, Jehovah being the peculiar name of the t...
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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, filled with terror at the scope
of this confession, which showed them that they were, although
unwittingly, assisting Jonah in his effort to escape the Lord, AND...
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JONAH'S COMMISSION AND FLIGHT...
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EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID:
_ Heb._ with great fear...
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8-12 Jonah gave an account of his religion, for that was his
business. We may hope that he told with sorrow and shame, justifying
God, condemning himself, and explaining to the mariners what a great...
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THEN; when Jonah had declared his God, whose power and wrath these
mariners saw and heard in the tempest, and what sin of his was now
punished, and how they had taken him into their ship, knowing that...
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Jonah 1:10 men H582 exceedingly H1419 H3374 afraid H3372 (H8799) said
H559 (H8799) done H6213 ...
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‘Then the men were hugely afraid, and said to him, “What is this
that you have done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the
presence of YHWH, because he had told them.'
When the men heard tha...
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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 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...
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CONTENTS: Jonah's commission and effort to avoid God's will. Swallowed
by a great fish.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonah, seamen.
CONCLUSION: Men may be distinctly called of God to proclaim His
message, yet r...
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Jonah 1:1. _The word of the Lord came to Jonah._ The word of prophecy,
delivered by Christ, the preëxistent Word, as appears from his
reasoning with the prophet when angry that Nineveh was spared. Jon...
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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 1:4 Jonah and the Pagan Sailors. These verses
tell of Jonah’s encounter with pagan sailors. It raises the
question, Who truly fears the Lord—Jonah, or the pagans? At the
beginning...
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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 1:9 MADE THE SEA. God created the very seas
Jonah tries to use to flee. Jonah knows now that he cannot escape
God’s presence (v. Jonah 1:3)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JONAH 1:8. TELL] How urgent and earnest this examination! Fit
questions for our own hearts!
JONAH 1:9. HEBREW] A name by which an Israelite was known to
foreigners (Genesis 40:15;...
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EXPOSITION
JONAH 1:1
Part I. THE MISSION OF JONAH. HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND PUNISHMENT.
JONAH 1:1
§ 1. Jonah is sent to Nine
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We cannot but admire the frankness of Jonah's confession of guilt, and
his willing surrender to the claims of justice, when the temptations
were so great to an opposite course an evidence surely of so...
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Jonah
Now we come to that interesting prophet Jonah.
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
wickedne...
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2 Samuel 24:3; Daniel 5:6; Job 27:22; John 19:8; Jonah 1:3;...
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JONAH, THE BOOK OF DIVINE REVELATIONS
Jonah 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We want, as we enter into the Book of Jonah, to speak of its
historicity. There are many today who relegate this most marvelous
me...