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Jonah 3:4

King James Version (KJV)

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Jonah 3:4

Verse 4 of 10

Scripture focus

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jonah 3:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jonah 3:4

Theological / Devotional

A day’s journey. We need not infer from this statement that Jonah walked for an entire day before beginning his preaching. The statement is probably a record of the first day’s preaching. Soon after entering the city Jonah doubtless began his message of warning.

Yet forty days. It need not be assumed that these words constituted the entire text of Jonah’s message. They were, however, the dominant theme of his warning.

Overthrown. Heb. haphak, the word used in Gen. 19:21, 25, 29 to describe the destruction of Sodom.

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