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Verse Jonah 3:5. _THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD_] They had no
doubt that the threatening would be fulfilled, unless their speedy
conversion prevented it; but, though not expressed, they knew tha...
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AND THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD; - strictly, “believed in
God.” To “believe in God” expresses more heart-belief, than to
“believe God” in itself need convey. To believe God is to believe
what G...
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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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PEOPLE. men. Hebrew pl of _'enosh_. App-14.
BELIEVED. Heb _Aman_. App-69.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4.
PROCLAIMED. FAST. Professor Rawlings has shown just at this time
Nineveh was in. time of troub...
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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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The Happy Result of Jonah's Preaching
5. _believed God_ Or, BELIEVED IN GOD. Three things their faith
certainly embraced. They believed in the God of the Hebrews, as the
true God. They believed in His...
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_THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED-- JONAH 3:4-5:_ Jonah went a day's
journey into the city of Nineveh and then began his preaching. It
sounds as if he reached the thickly populated part of town and then...
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SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD— The fame of the wonderful
works which God had wrought for the Jews, was spread over the eastern
parts of the world. This might induce the Ninevites to hearken to...
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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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So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put
on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD - gave credit to Jonah...
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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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BELIEVED GOD. — Or, _believed in God._ Notice again an implied
contrast to the dulness of the Jews, who were “slow to believe”
the prophetic warnings addressed to themselves.
PROCLAIMED A FAST. — App...
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וַֽ יַּאֲמִ֛ינוּ אַנְשֵׁ֥י
נִֽינְוֵ֖ה בֵּֽ אלֹהִ֑ים...
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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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So the people of Nineveh (d) believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and
put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
(d) For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them fro...
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_God. They were convinced that he had wrought such wonders in the
person of Jonas, with a desire of their welfare, particularly as he
allowed them some delay. Accordingly they did penance for about fo...
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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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One thing, escaped me in the third verse: Jonah said that Nineveh was
a city _great to God_. This form of speech is common in Scripture: for
the Hebrews call that Divine, whatever it be, that is super...
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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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SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD,.... Or "in God" r: in the word
of the Lord, as the Targum; they believed there was a God, and that
he, in whose name Jonah came, was the true God; they believed...
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So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put
on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Ver. 5. _So the people of Nineveh believed God_] See the might...
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_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...
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So the people of Nineveh believed God, they accepted His word, they
were filled with a wholesome fear, AND PROCLAIMED A FAST, as an
outward evidence of their sorrow, AND PUT ON SACKCLOTH, the garment...
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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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SO, Heb. _And_, THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH; the inhabitants who heard; they
first believed who first heard, and successively others as soon as
they heard. BELIEVED GOD, speaking by his prophet; they knew t...
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Jonah 3:5 people H582 Nineveh H5210 believed H539 (H8686) God H430
proclaimed H7121 (H8799) fast H6685 put...
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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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‘And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of
them.'
But the impact of the message was huge, for the people...
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John 3:5
I. Our Lord tells us that "Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites." He was
a sign (1) of the impartiality and inflexibility of the Divine
justice. Prophet though he was, raised to a higher place o...
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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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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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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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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...
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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 Chronicles 20:3; Acts 27:25; Acts 8:10; Exodus 9:18; Ezra 8:21;...
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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...
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From the greatest — Great and small, rich and poor....