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 "much cattle", Jonah 4:11.
preach. proclaim. Hebrew. kara. to cry aloud: as in verses: Jonah 3:4; Jonah 3:5; Jonah 3:8; Jonah 1:2; Jonah 1:6; Jonah 1:14.
Verse Jonah 3:2. _AND PREACH UNTO IT THE PREACHING_] וקרא את הקריאה _vekera_ _eth hakkeriah_, "And cry the cry that I bid thee." Be my herald, and faithfully deliver my message. The word κηρυξ in Gre...
ARISE, GO TO NINEVEH THAT GREAT CITY, AND PREACH (OR CRY) UNTO IT - God says to Jonah the self-same words which He had said before; only perhaps He gives him an intimation of His purpose of mercy, in...
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...
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...
_that great city_ Calvin explains this repeated mention of the greatness of Nineveh (comp. Jonah 1:2), as intended to prepare Jonah for the magnitude of the task before him, lest when he came face to...
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;...
_JONAH GOES TO NINEVEH TO PREACH -- JONAH 3:1-3:_ How relieved Jonah must have been to have been restored to dry land. After three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, "the Lord spake...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING WITH GODTHE COMMISSION RENEWED TEXT: Jonah 3:1-3 1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach u...
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. ARISE, GO UNTO NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY, AND PREACH UNTO IT THE PREACHING - literally, proclaim the procla...
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...
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...
III. THE PROPHET FULFILS HIS COMMISSION. ITS RESULT. (2) PREACH. — In Jonah 1:2 the word is rendered “cry.”...
ק֛וּם לֵ֥ךְ אֶל ־נִֽינְוֵ֖ה הָ עִ֣יר הַ
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...
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...
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....
_Bid thee before, or when thou shalt be there. (Calmet) --- He seems to have retired to Jerusalem. (Menochius)_...
Reader! I pray you observe the grace and condescension of the Lord in again calling Jonah to this service. Was it because the Lord had no other servant to employ? that is impossible. But because the L...
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...
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,...
The command now follows, _Arise, go to Nineveh, to that great city, and preach there the preaching which I command thee. _(42) God again repeats what we have observed at the be ginning, — that Nineveh...
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...
ARISE, GO UNTO NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY,.... So it is called; Jonah 1:2. The order runs in the same words as before; and the same discouragements are presented to Jonah, taken from the greatness of t...
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Ver. 2. _Arise, go unto Nineveh_] Begin again, and take better heed; as that Nazarite was to do that had def...
_And the word of the Lord_, &c. After Jonah had been well chastised for his disobedience, and was set at liberty, as recorded in the preceding chapter, the divine call to him to prophesy was repeated....
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...
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, the Assyrian capital and metropolis, AND PREACH UNTO IT THE PREACHING THAT I BID THEE, loudly proclaiming the message which the Lord would reveal to him in due...
1-4 God employs Jonah again in his service. His making use of us is an evidence of his being at peace with us. Jonah was not disobedient, as he had been. He neither endeavoured to avoid hearing the c...
ARISE, GO UNTO NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY; see AMOS 1:2; great in extent of ground, in strength of its fortifications, height and breadth of its walls, and multitude of its towers; great in the multitud...
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“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid you,” It was the same word as before, that he should go to Nineveh and proclaim to it the words that YHWH gave to him...
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...
NINEVEH (_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_And the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying._ THE RESTORED COMMISSION Here we learn what God is to those who truly repent. God may even restore all that has been forfeited. For...
JONAH 3:1 Jonah’s Recommissioning and Compliance. The fourth episode parallels Jonah 1:1 and focuses on the question, “What will happen to the Ninevites?” (see note on 1:1–3)....
CRITICAL NOTES.] JONAH 3:2. ARISE] J. might not imagine that God would send him again. But he appears to have some settled home, and an interval seems to have elapsed before the second commission, to...
EXPOSITION JONAH 3:1 Part III. JONAH'S PREACHING IN NINEVEH; THE REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES. Jonah 3:1
CHAPTER VI. THE NEW COMMISSION GIVEN TO JONAH, AND THE WONDERFUL RESULTS THAT FLOWED FROM ITS EXECUTION THE sojourn of Jonah for a time in the deep waters, and his singular experience there, having be...
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...
Ezekiel 2:7; Ezekiel 3:17; Genesis 10:11; Jeremiah 1:17; Jeremiah 1
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...