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THE MESSAGE
Jonah 3:1
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The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
The word of the LORD came to Yonah the second time, saying,
And the word of ye Lord came vnto Ionah the second time, saying;
And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
The Lord spoke his word to Jonah again and said,
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionah the seconde time, saying,
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
Once again the Lord told Jonah
The word of Adonai came to Yonah a second time:
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Then the Lord spoke to Jonah again and said,
AND the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Once again the Lord spoke to Jonah.
And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
And the Word of Jehovah was to Jonah the second time, saying,
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying:
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the second time, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
And the word of the Lord was maad the secounde tyme to Jonas, and seide, Rise thou,
And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
The Lord said to Jonah a second time,
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time:
The Word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jonah, the second time, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying:
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,
Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ionas agayne, sayenge:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the word: Jonah 1:1
the second: John 21:15-17
Reciprocal: Genesis 10:11 - Nineveh 1 Samuel 7:6 - fasted Haggai 1:8 - and build Acts 9:15 - Go
Cross-References
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Pseudo-Servants of God Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ. It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are. It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything. I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me? It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride. Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it. With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think. It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do. I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us. And I'm not changing my position on this. I'd die before taking your money. I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special. They're a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Let me come back to where I started—and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little. I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ. Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days. Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along. You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down—even slap your face! I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff. Since you admire the egomaniacs of the pulpit so much (remember, this is your old friend, the fool, talking), let me try my hand at it. Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match. Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time,.... Jonah having been scourged by the Lord for his stubbornness and disobedience, and being humbled under the mighty hand of God, is tried a second time, whether he would go on the Lord's errand, and do his business; and his commission is renewed, as it was necessary it should; for it would have been unsafe and dangerous for him to have proceeded upon the former without a fresh warrant; as the Israelites, when they refused entering into the land of Canaan to possess it, upon the report of the spies, and afterwards reflecting upon their sin, would go up without the word of the Lord, and contrary to the advice of Moses, many of them perished in the attempt, being cut off by the Amalekites,
Numbers 14:1; and this renewal of Jonah's commission shows that he was still continued in his office as a prophet, notwithstanding his failings; as the apostles were in theirs, though they all forsook Christ, and Peter denied him, Matthew 26:56; and that the Lord had heard his prayer, and graciously received him, and took away his iniquity from him, employing him again in his service, being more fitted for it:
saying; as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the word of the Lord came a second time to Jonah - o “Jonah, delivered from the whale, doubtless went up to Jerusalem to pay his vows and thank God there. Perhaps he hoped that God would be content with this his punishment and repentance, and that He would not again send him to Nineveh.” Anyway, he was in some settled home, perhaps again at Gath-hepher. For God bids him, “Arise, go” . “But one who is on his way, is not bidden to arise and go.” God may have allowed an interval to elapse, in order that the tidings of so great a miracle might spread far and wide. But Jonah does not supply any of these incidents . He does not speak of himself , but only of his mission, as God taught him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
Jonah is sent again to Nineveh, a city of three days' journey,
(being sixty miles in circumference, according to Diodorus
Siculus,) 1-4.
The inhabitants, in consequence of the prophet's preaching,
repent in dust and ashes, 5-9.
God, seeing that they were deeply humbled on account of their
sins, and that they turned away from all their iniquities,
repents of the evil with which he had threatened them, 10.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Jonah 3:1. And the word of the Lord — The same oracle as that before given; and which, from what he had felt and seen of the justice and mercy of the Lord, he was now prepared to obey.
