Jonah 3:10
ContextNETBible | When God saw their actions – they turned 1 from their evil way of living! 2 – God relented concerning the judgment 3 he had threatened them with 4 and he did not destroy them. 5 |
XREF | 1Ki 21:27-29; Job 33:27,28; Jer 18:8; Jer 31:18-20; Joe 2:13; Am 7:3,6; Jon 4:2; Lu 11:32; Lu 15:20 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn This clause is introduced by כִּי (ki, “that”) and functions as an epexegetical, explanatory clause. 2 tn Heb “from their evil way” (so KJV, ASV, NAB); NASB “wicked way.” 3 tn Heb “calamity” or “disaster.” The noun רָעָה (ra’ah, “calamity, disaster”) functions as a metonymy of result – the cause being the threatened judgment (e.g., Exod 32:12, 14; 2 Sam 24:16; Jer 18:8; 26:13, 19; 42:10; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; HALOT 1263 s.v. רָעָה 6). The root רָעָה is repeated three times in vv. 8 and 10. Twice it refers to the Ninevites’ moral “evil” (vv. 8 and 10a) and here it refers to the “calamity” or “disaster” that the 4 tn Heb “the disaster that he had spoken to do to them.” 5 tn Heb “and he did not do it.” See notes on 3:8-9. |