the word of the LORD came. This statement is unanswerable, and covers the truth of the whole contents of this book. This, or a like expression occurs seven times in Jonah (Jon_1:1; Jon_2:10; Jon_3:1, Jon_3:3; Jon_3:4. Jon_4:9, Jon_4:10).
the Lord. Hebrew. Jehovah.App-4. Jonah is the prophet named and described in 2Ki_14:25. He was a native of Gath-hepher, now el Meshhed, three miles north-east of Nazareth. Nazareth was in Galilee (see App-169). The statement of the Pharisee, in Joh_7:52 was not true.