David Guzik commentary on Jonah 1, where Jonah receives a call from God, but decides to run from Him, which God prevents by sending a storm.

Jonah is hereupon brought under examination before the master and mariners. He was a stranger; none of them could say that they knew the prisoner.

Study Jonah 1 using Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning.

The word of the Lord which came to Jonah was this: "Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach against it."

This chapter recounts the divine commission which came to Jonah, instructing him to prophesy against the city of Nineveh because of their great wickedness.

The Book of Jonah is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious. It is pathetic because the character Jonah is so completely unfaithful.

1 The Lord spoke to Jonah, the son of Amittai. 2 He said, Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Tell the people to stop doing bad things.

Even though Jonah's wish was to stop running from God by ending his life, he is also at his most Christlike. He gives up his life so that others might live. He ...

God wanted Jonah to warn the people of Nineveh. He was going to punish them soon, because of their evil lives. But God cared even for the Assyrian people in ... Jonah 1 − Commentary · Jonah 2 − Commentary · Jonah 3 − Commentary

Explore Jonah as it recounts how God shows his mercy, grace, and love and challenges his people to do the same in this TGC Bible Commentary by Jay Sklar.