Jonah 3:1-10

The Lord first instructed Jonah to arise and go to Nineveh in chapter 1. Jonah disobeyed. In the text before us, God instructs Jonah again to go to Nineveh and to “preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.”

God most certainly wanted Nineveh to turn from its wicked way. Sending Jonah to deliver His message was hardly God’s only option but it most certainly is the option which God chose. In…