Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jonah 1:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jonah 1:1 - 1:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jonah 1:1 - 1:1

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1:1 - 1:1
1:2 - 1:2
1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14
1:15 - 1:15
1:16 - 1:16
1:17 - 1:17

Jon 1:1-17. Jonah’s commission to Nineveh, flight, punishment, and preservation by miracle.

Jonah - meaning in Hebrew, “dove.” Compare Gen 8:8, Gen 8:9, where the dove in vain seeks rest after flying from Noah and the ark: so Jonah. Grotius not so well explains it, “one sprung from Greece” or Ionia, where there were prophets called Amythaonidae.

Amittai - Hebrew for “truth,” “truth-telling”; appropriate to a prophet.