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

• 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

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