KJ21. It is sad to think how much sin is committed in great cities. First is God's grace shown to His prophet, Jonah, by extending him a second chance after his flagrant rebellion in chapter 1. Although this phrase is one of the several indications in the book of Jonah of Nineveh’s impressive size, interpreters are not precisely sure what “a three-day walk” means. Jonah 3:3 Context.

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But God was merciful and offered another chance.

And Nineveh was such a great, or such a large, city, that it took three days’ journey to walk across it.) Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. Jonah 3:2 Jonah 3:4. Jonah would not go. Jonah 3:3 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Jonah 3:3, NIV: "Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh.Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it." Jonah here relates what had briefly been said before, — that he went to Nineveh according to the command of God. Commentary on Jonah 1:1-3. So ... (And Jonah rose up, and went to Nineveh, by the word of the Lord. Jonah must go at once to Nineveh, and there, on the spot, cry against the wickedness of it. Wesley's Jonah 3:3 Bible Commentary 3:3 Exceeding great - The greatest city of the known world at that day, it was then in its flourishing state greater than Babylon, whose compass was three hundred eighty - five furlongs, but Nineveh was in compass, four hundred and eighty. Their wickedness, as that of Nineveh, is a bold and open affront to God.

3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Hence Jonah came and began to enter the city and to preach on the first day. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days. Jonah (Brazo's Theological Commentary on the Bible) | Cary, Phillip | ISBN: 9781587431371 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. (Read Jonah 1:1-3.)

Jonah 3:3, ESV: "So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD.Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth." Jonah 3 Commentary - excerpt Jonah 3:3 - Required three days to walk through it. Calvin's Commentary on the Bible. Probably there are few among us who would not have tried to decline such a mission. and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Top. He shows then how faithfully he executed the duty enjoined on him, and thus obeyed the word of God. YLT. Grace is the major theme of Jonah 3. 1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Jonah had made a serious mistake and suffered serious consequences.