Jonah 3:1-4

Nineveh Repents

1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

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."

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.

Cross References

• 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

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "a great city to God"