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Jonah 3:1-5

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 "Arise, go to 1Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you."
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now 2Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,[a] three days' journey in breadth.[b]
4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
5 3And the people of Nineveh believed God. 4They called for a fast and 5put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

Jonah 3:1-5 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.

Cross References 5

  • 1. See Jonah 1:2
  • 2. [See ver. 2 above]
  • 3. [Matthew 12:41; Luke 11:32]
  • 4. See 2 Chronicles 20:3
  • 5. See 2 Samuel 3:31

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew a great city to God
  • [b]. Or a visit was a three days' journey
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