Jonah 3:1-4

Jonah's Preaching

1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:^[a]

2 "Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you."

3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord's command. Now Nineveh was an extremely large city,^[b] a three-day walk.^[c]

4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, "In 40 days 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Jnh 1:1
• [b] Or was a great city to God
• [c] Probably the time required to cover the city on foot