Skip to content- v2: The goal of this book is not to bring people to despair, but to repentance and obedience.
- v3: God is calling the Jews to
- seek Him
- be humble
- do what He commands
- Seek righteousness
- Seek humility
- v3: Many died in the Babylonians invasions, others were spared and some were exiled to Babylon.
- v4-5: Judgement will come to the gentiles as well
- v4: “Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron” these are Philistine major cities
- v5: Kerethites are Cretans
- v7: “the remnant of the house of Judah” not all Jews were destroyed. The remaining Jews are called remnant, God will one day restore their fortunes.
- v8-11: Judgment against Moab and Ammon. Both were descendants of Lot’s (Gen 19:30-38). These people lived in the east of Jordan river.
- v9: “salt pits” being close to the Dead Sea, much of Moab and Ammon is salty, barren land.
- v10: The reason why they would be judged: pride and insulted the people of the LORD Almighty
- v11: “The nations on every shore will worship Him” this will be fulfilled starting from Christ’s second coming.
- v12: Cushites are people who resided in upper Nile region (southern Egypt, Sudan, and northern Ephiopia)
- v13-V15: A prophesy of the destruction of the Assyria and its capital Nineveh.
- v15: “Carefree city that lived in safety”
- Circumference of 60 miles
- Population of at least 120,000 (Jonah 3:3, 4:11)
- External Wall and Internal Wall (8 mile circumference, 50 feet thick and 100 feet high).
- Between the two walls was enough farmland to support the huge population.
