Jonah 3:4 BSB — MannaFest

Jonah 3:4

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 3 (420)

"[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." LXX: 'he proclaimed and said, another three days and Nineveh will be destroyed". The umber three written in the Septuagint does not agree with the penitence, and I am quite astonished at this translation, for in Hebrew neither the letters or syllables or accents or the word show any common element. For three is said, salos and forty arbaim.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Yet forty days - Both the Septuagint and Arabic read three days. Probably some early copyist of the Septuagint, from whom our modern editions are derived, mistook the Greek numerals μ forty for γ three; or put the three days’ journey in preaching instead of the forty days mentioned in the denunciation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is no longer a cry against the sins of Nineveh, but an announcement of its ruin in forty days. This number is in Scripture associated often with humiliation. It was forty days that Moses, Elijah, and Christ fasted.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֤חֶל	vai.Ya.chel	and he began	H2490 →
יוֹנָה֙	yo.Nah	Jonah	H3124 →
לָב֣וֹא	la.Vo'	to go	H935 →
בָעִ֔יר	va.'Ir	in the city	H5892 →
מַהֲלַ֖ךְ	ma.ha.Lakh	a journey of	H4109 →
י֣וֹם	Yom	a day	H3117 →
אֶחָ֑ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
וַיִּקְרָא֙	vai.yik.Ra'	and he proclaimed	H7121 →
וַיֹּאמַ֔ר	vai.yo.Mar	and he said	H559 →
ע֚וֹד	od	yet	H5750 →
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים	'ar.ba.'Im	forty	H705 →
י֔וֹם	Yom	day[s]	H3117 →
וְנִֽינְוֵ֖ה	ve.ni.ne.Veh	and Nineveh	H5210 →
נֶהְפָּֽכֶת׃	neh.Pa.khet	[is] about to be overturned	H2015 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
leads to
- Jeremiah 18:8
  But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
- 1 Kings 21:27–29
  When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- Exodus 32:14
  So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
- Amos 7:6
  So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
Through
2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to…
leads to
- Isaiah 38:1–22
  In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to…
- 2 Chronicles 32:24–26
  In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.
- Philippians 2:27
  He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
Through
Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:20
  But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put…

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06About Jonah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Jonah