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Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:1-11

Jonah, the Book of Divine Revelations Jonah 1:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want, as we enter into the Book of Jonah, to speak of its historicity. There are many today who relegate this most marvelous message from the Divine pen to the scrap pile of ancient lore. They have relegated Jonah to the scrap pile long ago, Just because the God they worship, can't work miracles you know. We take the Book of Jonah exactly as we take every other Book of the Minor Prophets, as one hundred per cent... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:12-17

Jonah, and the Calvary Message Jonah 1:12-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The message of Calvary is not the message of historical Scriptures alone. Beyond doubt, the final chapters of the Gospels, and the Epistles and the Revelation all speak of the death of Christ, but they never speak of it as of some exigency that came upon Christ Jesus unawares. The four Gospels do, we grant, show a growing antagonism to the Lord on the part of the leaders of the Jews. This hatred grew rapidly as the Cross... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 1:1

THE PROPHET JONAH‘Jonah the son of Amittai.’ Jonah 1:1 I. The prophecy of Jonah is confessedly one of the most remarkable and interesting in the Old Testament.—Deserting the ordinary cycle of Jewish thought, it carries us to a great heathen city, Israel’s bitter enemy; but the prophet’s errand thither is to show that God’s mercies are not limited to His covenant people, but embrace the whole heathen world. And the prophet carries his message unwillingly. Trained in the narrow belief that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:1

‘Now the word of YHWH came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,’ As a prophet of YHWH Jonah received ‘the word of YHWH’. We are rarely given any explanation of how the word of YHWH was given and we are not justified in most cases in assuming that the prophet went into a state of ecstasy. Indeed it could be argued that among Hebrew prophets that was so rare an occurrence that it was only when it did happen that it was described in depth. Many have received the word of God since that day in the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:2

‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me.’ YHWH’s command was that Jonah should go to Nineveh to proclaim His word there, because He was aware of their ‘wickedness’, or alternatively ‘the evil that had come upon them’. In fact both meanings might have been seen as reflected in the word. As well as indicating moral wickedness the word used can also indicate ‘evil’ in the sense of ‘afflictions’ or ‘natural evils’ But Jonah’s message to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:3

‘But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of YHWH, and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of YHWH.’ But Jonah was unwilling to go to Nineveh and sought to evade YHWH’s call by fleeing in the opposite direction to Nineveh. He did this by taking ship for Tarshish (possibly Sardinia or Spain). Tarshish (possibly meaning ‘smeltery’) was the name given to a number of areas... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:4

‘But YHWH sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was likely to be broken.’ But YHWH was not going to let Jonah off so easily. Jonah was His servant and He never just cast off His servants however badly they behaved. He was as concerned to show mercy to Jonah, as He was to the sailors and to Nineveh. So He sent a great wind on the sea, and aroused a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the probability was that the ship would be broken in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:5

‘Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and they cast overboard the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he lay, and was fast asleep.’ It may well be that Jonah was the only passenger aboard. Thus when the storm came he got himself out of the way and left things in the hands of those who were more capable. The fact that he fell asleep suggests merely that he had little... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:6

‘So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise, call on your God, if so be that God will think on us, so that we perish not.” ’ The shipmaster was concerned to see that while his mariners were doing all that they could to persuade their gods to rescue the ship, their passenger did not appear to be interested. And he woke him up and asked him what he meant by sleeping at such a time. Then he called on him to ‘arise, call on your God’, just in case his God... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:7

‘And they said every one to his fellow, “Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.” Then in desperation, when things did not improve, the mariners decided to cast lots in order to find out who among them had angered the gods so much that it had resulted in this evil coming on them. The word for ‘evil’ is the same one mentioned with regard to the Ninevites in Jonah 1:2. But here it signifies ‘evil events’, that... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:1-11

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:12-17

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 1:1

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:1

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:7

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