Jonah 3:1
THE WORD OF THE LORD. See note on Jonah 1:1. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_, App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD OF THE LORD. See note on Jonah 1:1. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_, App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT CITY. Compare Jonah 1:1; Jonah 1:2; Jonah 4:11. Diodorus Siculus (cent.. B.C.), and Herodotus (cent.. B.C.), Jon 3:58, both say it was about sixty miles in circuit and about twenty miles across. We must remember that such cities included large areas for cultivation and pasturage. Compare ... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE DAYS, &C. i.e. in circuit.... [ Continue Reading ]
A. one cried. See note on "preach", Jonah 3:2. FORTY. The number of probation. See App-10.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 trouble, and Assyrian history was "shrouded in darkness for forty years". Hope was given to all the neigh... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL WICKED. Hebrew. _raa_ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
REPENTED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. OF. concerning... [ Continue Reading ]