- Jonah obeyed the Lord this time.
- Jonah preached the Word of the Lord this time.
- People hoped that God would spare them.
- God acted in total consistency with His Word:
- The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. Jeremiah 18:7-8
- God did judge Nineveh (as recorded in the book of Nahum). Nevertheless, in light of their repentance He delayed it another 150 years.
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