Jonah 3:1-4

Nineveh hears God’s word

1 The LORD's word came to Jonah a second time:

2 "Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and declare against it the proclamation that I am commanding you."

3 And Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD's word. (Now Nineveh was indeed an enormous city, a three days' walk across.)

4 Jonah started into the city, walking one day, and he cried out, "Just forty days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!"

Jonah 3:1-4 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.