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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The book of Jonah contains one of the best known stories in the Old Testament. Many people know of only one incident in the book—the fish swallowing Jonah, especially since that incident is singled out in the teaching of Jesus and reproduced in traditional Christian art. But the reference in Matthew to Jonah’s three-day stay in the big fish is immediately followed by a reminder that the people of Nineveh repented when they heard Jonah’s message (Matt 12:40, 41). The
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