Jonah 3:2-10

2 "Arise, go to ¹Nineveh the great city and ²proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."

3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an ³exceedingly great city, a three days' walk.

4 Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he ⁴cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown."

5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a ⁵fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, ⁶covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

7 He issued a ⁷proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water.

8 "But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men ⁸call on God earnestly that each may ⁹turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.

9 "¹⁰Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."

10 When God saw their deeds, that they ¹¹turned from their wicked way, then ¹²God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

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Jonah 3:2-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 3

This chapter gives an account of the renewal of Jonah's message to Nineveh, and of his faithful execution of it, Jon 3:1-4; and of the fruit and effect of it, the conversion of the Ninevites, their faith in God, repentance of their sins, and reformation from them, Jon 3:5-9; and of God's approbation thereof, by revoking the sentence he had pronounced upon them, Jon 3:10.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Zephaniah 2:13
2. Jeremiah 1:17; Ezekiel 2:7
3. Jonah 1:2; Jonah 4:11
4. Matthew 12:41; Luke 11:32
5. Daniel 9:3; Joel 1:14
6. Esther 4:1-4; Jeremiah 6:26; Ezekiel 27:30, 31
7. 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21; Jonah 3:5
8. Psalms 130:1; Jonah 1:6, 14
9. Isaiah 1:16-19; Isaiah 55:6, 7; Jeremiah 18:11
10. 2 Samuel 12:22; Joel 2:14
11. 1 Kings 21:27-29; Jeremiah 31:18
12. Exodus 32:14; Jeremiah 18:8; Amos 7:3, 6

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "a great city to God"
[b]. Or "dust"
[c]. Lit "them"
[d]. Lit "their"
[e]. Lit "do"

Jonah 3:2-10

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Jonah 3:2-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 3

Cross References 12

Footnotes 5