Jonah 3 - Introduction
_JONAH, SENT AGAIN, PREACHETH TO THE NINEVITES. UPON THEIR REPENTANCE, GOD RELENTETH._ _Before Christ 862._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JONAH, SENT AGAIN, PREACHETH TO THE NINEVITES. UPON THEIR REPENTANCE, GOD RELENTETH._ _Before Christ 862._... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW NINEVEH WAS AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY— The account here given of Nineveh is confirmed by the testimony of heathen authors. Strabo says, that Nineveh was much greater even than Babylon: and Diodorus Siculus affirms, that its builder, Ninus, proposed to build a city of such magnitude, that it should... [ Continue Reading ]
YET FORTY DAYS, &C.— In most of the threats of God, there is always a condition expressed or understood. It is expressed Jeremiah 18:8. It is understood in the passage before us.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 a man of that nation, who came to them as sent from God; especially as he, doubtless, gave them an... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WORD CAME UNTO THE KING OF NINEVEH— _For word had come,_ or, _For the thing had reached unto,_ &c. This king most probably was Pul, the father of Sardanapalus, who, dying about the year of the world 3237, might have been upon the throne at the time when Jonah went to Nineveh; for this happened u... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST—TASTE ANY THING— This was carrying their abstinence to a greater severity than what we find practised among the Jews; for though in times of public calamity, and on the day of solemn expiation, we find that they made their children fast, as we may gather from Joel 2:16.; ye... [ Continue Reading ]
LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED WITH SACKCLOTH— The covering of _horses and mules with sackcloth_ adds to the solemnity of a funeral. In like manner, the mournful garb of the Ninevites was an affecting circumstance in this public sorrow and humiliation. See Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 6:6. REFLECTIONS.—1st, No more disobedient to the heavenly vision, we now find Jonah ready to go; an... [ Continue Reading ]