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.
Verse Jonah 3:8. _LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED_] This was done that every object which they beheld might deepen the impression already made, and cause them to mourn after a godly sort. _Virgil_ tells...
LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED WITH SACKCLOTH - The gorgeous caparisons of horses, mules and camels was part of Eastern magnificence. Who knows not how man’s pride is fed by the sleekness of his stud, t...
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...
EVIL WICKED. Hebrew. _raa_ App-44....
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;...
_and cry mightily_ These words are to be restricted to "man." They do not include, as some have thought (comparing Joel 1:18; Joel 1:20), "beast" as well. The addition "mightily" favours the restricti...
_THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED -- JONAH 3:6-8:_ Just Jonah saying those words, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" would likely not have brought about this change among the people. Ther...
DISCOURSE: 1201 REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES [Note: A Fast Sermon.] John 3:8. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth; and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING WITH GOD THE CONSEQUENCE OF REPENTANCE TEXT: Jonah 3:5-10 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of th...
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. AND CRY MIGHTILY UNTO GOD;...
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...
וְ יִתְכַּסּ֣וּ שַׂקִּ֗ים הָֽ אָדָם֙ וְ 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....
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and (f) cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands. (f) He exhorted that th...
What! But the sovereign grace of God could have induced such effects! What nation, what kingdom or people shall we look to, for similar humblings, at the preaching of a poor despised Prophet? Do we no...
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,...
Jonah afterwards adds, _And they cried mightily _(49) _to God _This must be confined to men; for it could not have been applied to brute animals. Men then, as well as the beasts, abstained from meat a...
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...
BUT LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED WITH SACKCLOTH,.... As the king was, and the people also were; and this order enjoined the same to the beasts, horses, and camels, whose rich trappings were to be take...
_But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands._ Ver. 8. _But let man and...
_Let neither man nor beast taste any thing_ This was ordered to add the greater solemnity to the humiliation, and that men might be affected by the mournful cries of the cattle under such restraints,...
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, clothed in mourning, AND CRY MIGHTILY UNTO GOD, the very lowing of the cattle and the bleating of the sheep in their distress being considered appeals...
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...
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...
BUT LET MAN, every man, from the greatest, the king on the throne, to the least, the beggar on the dunghill, put off his usual and softer habit, and afflict himself in coarsest garments. AND BEAST; th...
Jonah 3:8 man H120 beast H929 covered H3680 (H8691) sackcloth H8242 cry H7121 (H8799) mightily H2394 God...
‘And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water...
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...
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...
_But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God._ THE SIN AND REPENTANCE OF NINEVEH We have in these words part of the means which the king of Nineveh and his nobles judg...
_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...
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
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 3:7 ISSUED A PROCLAMATION. It is likely that v. Jonah 3:5 and vv. Jonah 3:6 are i
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...
EXPOSITION JONAH 3:1 Part III. JONAH'S PREACHING IN NINEVEH; THE REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES. Jonah 3:1
4. The last step in a true repentance the return in faith and confidence to God is also represented to have been taken by the Ninevites. Without this their repentance could certainly not have been com...
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...
Acts 26:20; Acts 3:19; Daniel 4:27; Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 33:11;...
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...
And beast — Their horses and camels, both which they adorned with rich and costly clothing, they must now in testimony of an hearty repentance, clothe with sackcloth; the clothing of beasts must witne...