by Dr. Grant C. Richison
Jonah 3: 4 “And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said; “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk.
Jonah had but one prediction. He proclaimed that message on every street corner. He […]
Jonah 3: 4 “And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Nineveh was an unusually corrupt city. Artifacts of clay tablets and the like display […]
Jonah 3: 5 “So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.”
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God,
The city of Nineveh believed God, not Jonah. They came to ready accord with the message of Jehovah that judgment would come to the […]
Jonah 3: 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man […]
Jonah 3: 10 “Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”
Then God saw their works,
God took note of the credibility of the Ninevites’ repentance.
that they turned from their […]
Jonah 4: 1 “But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.”
But
The right-about-face word “but” shows another negative turn by Jonah. God “relented of evil” and Jonah did not like it. Jonah wanted the Ninevites to suffer punishment from God. He was angry with God because God extended grace to the Ninevites.
it displeased […]
Jonah 4: 2 “So he prayed to the Lord, and said, ‘Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing […]
Jonah 4: 2 “So he prayed to the Lord, and said, ‘Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing […]
Jonah 4: 2 “So he prayed to the Lord, and said, ‘Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing […]
Jonah 4: 2 “So he prayed to the Lord, and said, ‘Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing […]
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