Jonah 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 3:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 12:22
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Joel 2:13-14
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. …
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Luke 15:18-20
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

Here is I. A wonder of divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh, upon the warning given them of their destruction approaching. Verily I say unto you, we have not found so great an instance of it, no, not in Israel; and it will rise up in judgment against the men of the gospel— generation, and condemn them; for the Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonas, but behold, a greater…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Who can tell--(Compare Joe 2:14). Their acting on a vague possibility of God’s mercy, without any special ground of encouragement, is the more remarkable instance of faith, as they had to break through long-rooted prejudices in giving up idols to seek Jehovah at all. The only ground which their ready faith rested on, was the fact of God sending one to warn them, instead of destroying them at on…