Jonah 1:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offeredf a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. ”

• Jonah 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the men feared the Lord with a great fear - because, from the tranquility of the sea and the ceasing of the tempest, they saw that the prophet’s words were true. This great miracle completed...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then the men (l) feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. (l) They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Jonah 1:1 to Jonah 2:1 ; Jonah 2:10 . Jonah vainly Seeks to Evade the Mission to which God Appoints Him. Jonah is bidden by Yahweh to proclaim judgment on Nineveh for its sin, but he hurries in...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  offered, &c.. sacrificed: i.e. they vowed that they would offer [when they landed]. Hebrew. zebach. App-43.

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• Jonah 1:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Jonah now declares what fruit followed; and first, he says, that the sailors feared the true God. He uses here the proper name of God, Jehovah; for, as we have already seen, they were addicted...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Offered a sacrifice - The first perhaps ever offered on board a vessel since the ark floated on the wat...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And offered a sacrifice, &c.— Houbigant, following the Hebrew, Vulgate, &c. ends the chapter with this verb.

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• Jonah 1:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Disobedience of Jonah 2. Nineveh] the world-famous capital of Assyria, on the Tigris. For its wickedness cp. Nahum 3 . 3 . Jonah seeks to escape from the unwelcome task, both because he hat...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Offered. — There may have been some live-stock on board suitable for sacrifice; but the offering could only be completed on landing, wherefore they made vows.

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• Jonah 1:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE GREAT REFUSAL John 1:1-17 WE have now laid clear the lines upon which the Book of Jonah was composed. Its purpose is to illustrate God's grace to the heathen in face of His people's refusal...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Fleeing from God and Duty John 1:1-16 Jonah is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25 . He was clearly very patriotic, and did not despair of his country in its darkest days. This commission to Nineveh wa...

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• Jonah 1:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In narrating his own experience on his mission to Nineveh, Jonah intended to teach his people the lesson of the inclusiveness of the divine government, and thus to rebuke their exclusive attitude tow...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This is a beautiful part of the history. The modest enquiries of the mariners; the honesty of Jonah; the reluctances in the minds of the ship's-company to cast Jonah into the sea; their cry unto the...

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• Jonah 1:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly ,.... This was not a natural fear, as before, but a religious one; and not a servile fear, or a fear of punishment, but a reverential godly fear; for they fe...

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• Jonah 1:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Ver. 16. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly ] Heb. with a great fear. They feared before, Joh...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly They were convinced of the power and greatness of that God whom Jonah worshipped: which appeared both in raising this storm, and in so suddenly laying it....

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• Jonah 1:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Prophet Confesses His Folly; The Prophet Reads His Own Doom; The Prophet Cast into the Sea; Jonah's Preservation in the Fish's Belly. B. ...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Then, when they saw God approved the thing, and confirmed Jonah's word, as of a true prophet, and had spared them, the men, the seamen, and all others, if any others were in the ship, feared the L...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Then the men feared YHWH greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to YHWH, and made vows.' And the result was that the men recognised in YHWH a God Who had to be taken into account, and they paid Him...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .] Jonah 1:11 . The sea ] “Not only increasingly tempestuous, but, like a thing alive and obeying its Master’s will, it was holding on its course, its wild waves tossing themselve...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

  feared ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).

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• Jonah 1:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Jonah 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Jonah 1:1-3 . Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah ro...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jonah 1:1 . The word of the Lord came to Jonah. The word of prophecy, delivered by Christ, the preëxistent Word, as appears from his reasoning with the prophet when angry that Nineveh was spared....

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• Jonah 1:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jonah 1:1-32 Part I. THE MISSION OF JONAH . HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND PUNISHMENT . Jonah 1:1-32 § 1. Jonah is sent to Nineveh to cry against it; but he tries to a...

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• Jonah 1:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jonah and The Sea Monster

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• Jonah 1:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 5:17 ; Acts 5:11 ; Daniel 4:34-37 ; Daniel 6:26 ; Ecclesiastes 5:4 ; Genesis 28:20 ; Genesis 8:20 ; Isaiah 26:9 ; Isaiah 60:5-7 ; Jonah 1:10 ; Judges 13:16 ; Mark 4:31 ; Psalms 1...

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• Jonah 1:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Jonah, and the Calvary Message Jonah 1:12-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The message of Calvary is not the message of historical Scriptures alone. Beyond doubt, the final Chapter s of the Gospels, and...

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