Jonas 1:1-17 NVIPT

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:2

1:2 Arise, go to {b} Nineveh, that {c} great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.(b) For seeing the great obstipation of the Israelites, he sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke them to repentance, or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chief city of the Assyrians.(c) For as authors write, it contained in circuit about forty-eight miles, and had 1500 towers, and at this time there were 120,000 children in it; Jonah 4:11 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:3

1:3 But Jonah rose up to {d} flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to {e} Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the {f} presence of the LORD.(d) By which he declares his weakness, that would not promptly follow the Lord’s calling, but gave place to his own reason, which persuaded him that he would not profit these people at all, seeing he had done such little good among his... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:5

1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down {g} into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.(g) As one that would have cast off this care and concern by seeking rest and quietness. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:6

1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy {h} God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.(h) As they had called on their idols, which declares that idolaters have no rest nor certainty, but in their troubles seek what they do not even know. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:7

1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast {i} lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.(i) Which declares that the matter was very extreme and in doubt, which was God’s way of getting them to test for the cause: and this may not be done except in matters of great importance. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:14

1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, {k} We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.(k) This declares that the very wicked in their time of need flee to God for help, and also that they are touched with a certain fear of shedding man’s blood, whereas they know no manifest sign of wickedness. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:16

1:16 Then the men {l} feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.(l) They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true God by whom they saw themselves as wonderfully delivered. But this was done for fear, and not from a pure heart and affection, neither according to God’s word. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:17

1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the {m} belly of the fish three days and three nights.(m) Thus the Lord would chastise his Prophet with a most terrible spectacle of death, and by this also strengthened and encouraged him of his favour and support in this duty which was commanded him. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:1-17

A MISGUIDED PATRIOT LEARNS OBEDIENCE There is only one instance of Jonah’s prophesying to his own people of Israel, 2 Kings 14:25 . There he made a prediction concerning the restoration of the coasts of Israel, which was fulfilled in the reign of Jeroboam 2 about 800 B.C., showing that he lived earlier than that date. Of his personal history nothing further is known than what is found in this book. Jonah 1:0 Nineveh (Jonah 1:2 ) was the capital of Assyria, and the reason Jonah sought to... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jonah 1:1-17

The Flight of Jonah Jonah 1:0 "Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai" ( Jon 1:1 ). We are apt to think that this coming of the word of the Lord to men in ancient time was so special a circumstance that it has no application to ourselves. We think of the prophet as a solitary being; we have no doubt that Almighty God did speak to him in some special and peculiar manner; but how rarely it occurs to us that he who spoke to the prophets in times past is now speaking unto us... read more

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:2

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:3

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:5

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:6

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:7

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:14

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:16

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 1:17

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:1-17

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jonah 1:1-17

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