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Jonah 1

Jon 1:1-2—The prophet's first commission.

Jon 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Nineveh

Scofield Nahum 1:1, note.

that great city

Jon 3:2, 3; 4:11; Gen 10:11, 12.


Jon 1:3-11—The prophet's flight from Jehovah; the great storm.

Jon 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

the presence of the LORD

Gen 4:16; Job 1:12; 2:7.

Jon 1:9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

fear [See also Jon 1:16.]

Scofield Psalm 19:9, note.

hath made the sea and the dry land

Psa 146:6; Act 17:24.


Jon 1:12-17—The prophet swallowed by the great fish.

Jon 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

the LORD had prepared

Four prepared things. Jonah 4:6, 7, 8

a great fish

No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ (Mat 12:39, 40). Science, "falsely so called" (1Ti 6:20), failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse (Gen 3:17-19), is intolerant of miracle. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of divine love, interposing for good in a physically and morally disordered universe (Rom 8:19-23).

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