The book of Jonah is a testament to the boundless mercy, compassion, and utter patience of our Creator, with both his "bad-attitude-prophet" and with the people of Nineveh were depraved and violent Jonah 3:8.
1: And the word of YHWH came unto Jonah the second time saying 2: Arise, go to Nineveh that great city and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee 3: So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of YHWH Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey 4: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey [He walked about a day before he opened his mouth] then he cried and said Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown 5: So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them 6: For word came unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes 7: And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying Let neither mortal [invisible women] nor beast herd nor flock taste anything Let them not feed nor drink water 8: But let mortal [invisible women] and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God yea let them turn each one from their [invisible women] evil way and from the violence that is in their hands
Comments: Jonah 3:7-8
In this commentary, the words “invisible women” often appear in brackets and
superscript to identify places where most Bible translations use the male
gender to describe both women and men, despite context that is clearly to the
contrary. In Jonah 3:7-8, women are usually referred as men three times in just
two verses.
Highlighting invisible women [in this commentary] is done because
semantics matter. Awareness must be raised of the vastness of the scope of
writing women out of history…and of the continuing habit of writing women out
of modern stories by the use of inappropriate pronouns. There is no excuse for
writing women out of the picture by continuing to refer to all humanity and
mixed crowds in the masculine, e.g., man, men, him, he, his, etc. We cannot
change history, but the very least we can do is stop perpetuating the problem
by referring to every human as “man, he, or him.”
9: Who can tell if THE
ELOHIM will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we
perish not?
Comments: Jonah 3:9 A gentile king said this, recognizing
the Almighty, calling him THE ELOHIM. Jesus commented on the
propensity of gentiles to repent in sackcloth and ashes when confronted with their
sin [Luke 10:13]. He contrasted this with the stubbornness of his
own people who had a nasty habit of killing their own prophets. How does this
speak to the Body of Christ and the habit of Christian leaders (thankfully not
all) of tickling ears, only preaching “feel good” stuff?
10: And THE ELOHIM
saw their works that they turned from their evil way and THE ELOHIM repented
of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not
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