Jonah: 2 Kings 14:25; Matthew 12:39, Matthew 16:4; Luke 11:29-30, Luke 11:32, Jonas
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Jonah 1:1
Jonah 1:1
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Jonah 1 — OverviewJonah 1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn this chapter we have, I. A command given to Jonah to preach at
Nineveh, ver. 1, 2. II. Jonah's disobedience to that command, ver. 3.
III. The pursuit and arrest of him for that disobedience by a storm, in…Jonah 1 — OverviewJonah 1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJonah 1:1, Jonah, sent to Nineveh, flees to Tarshish; Jonah 1:4, He is bewrayed by a tempest; Jonah 1:11, thrown into the sea; Jonah 1:17, and swallowed by a fish.Jonah 1 — OverviewJonah 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis book, in the Hebrew copies, is called "Sepher Jonah", the Book of Jonah; by the Vulgate Latin version "the Prophecy of Jonah": and in the Syriac version "the Prophecy of the Prophet Jonah". His name signifies a…Jonah 1:1-3Jonah 1:1-3 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleObserve, 1. The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission
to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove, a proper
name for all God's prophets, all his people, who ought to be harmless…