-
CHAPTER IV
_Jonah, dreading to be thought a false prophet, repines at God's_
_mercy in sparing the Ninevites, whose destruction he seems to_
_have expected, from his retiring to a place without the...
-
AND JONAH WAS DISPLEASED EXCEEDINGLY - It was an untempered zeal. The
prophet himself records it as such, and how he was reproved for it. He
would, like many of us, govern God’s world better than God...
-
CHAPTER 4
Jonah's Discontent and Correction
_ 1. Jonah's discontent (John 4:1) _
2. The correction (John 4:4)
John 4:1. All that had happened displeased Jonah exceedingly and he
was very angry. Did...
-
JONAH 4. JONAH'S INTOLERANCE REBUKED AND GOD'S MERCY VINDICATED. God's
clemency to Nineveh made Jonah very angry. It was not, as we might be
tempted to suppose, that he felt his professional credit as...
-
DISPLEASED. vexed. Not the waywardness of. child, but the displeasure
of. man of God, for great and sufficient _reason_ to him. Now that
Nineveh was spared, it might after all be used as God's rod for...
-
_it displeased Jonah, &c._ Lit. IT WAS EVIL TO JONAH, A GREAT EVIL,
AND IT (viz. anger) KINDLED TO HIM. Comp. Nehemiah 2:10. It is clear
that the immediate cause of Jonah's anger and vexation was the...
-
Jonah 4:1-11. Jonah's Displeasure, and its Rebuke
Greatly displeased at the clemency of God towards Nineveh, Jonah
confesses that it was the expectation that that clemency would be
exercised, which r...
-
_JONAH'S ANGRY PRAYER TO GOD -- JONAH 4:1-3:_ The Lord's compassion
toward Nineveh displeased Jonah greatly. He was really upset and angry
with God because Nineveh had not been destroyed. A person can...
-
BUT IT DISPLEASED JONAH EXCEEDINGLY— Seeing that what he had
foretold against the Ninevites did not happen, Jonah was afraid, lest
he should pass for a false prophet and a deceiver, his ministry be
de...
-
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DISPLEASURE OF JONAH
TEXT: Jonah 4:1-3
1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2
And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehov...
-
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
BUT IT DISPLEASED JONAH EXCEEDINGLY, AND HE WAS VERY ANGRY -
literally, hot, probably with grief or vexation rather than anger
(Fairbairn...
-
JONAH'S JEALOUSY CONTRASTED WITH JEHOVAH'S COMPASSION
1. Jonah's anger has a double cause, wounded pride that his words are
proved false, and indignation that the God of Israel should pity
heathen, o...
-
THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD
JONAH
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 4
V1 Jonah was upset and angry. V2 He complained, ‘Lord, did I not
say before I left home that you would do this? I thought that yo...
-
IV.
JONAH’S DISCONTENT AND CORRECTION.
(1) BUT IT DISPLEASED JONAH. — The Hebrew (_it was evil to_) is
stronger. The prophet was vexed and irritated.
HE WAS VERY ANGRY. — Literally, _it_ (anger) _bur...
-
וַ יֵּ֥רַע אֶל ־יֹונָ֖ה רָעָ֣ה
גְדֹולָ֑ה וַ
-
ISRAEL'S JEALOUSY OF JEHOVAH
John 4:1
HAVING illustrated the truth, that the Gentiles are capable of
repentance unto life, the Book now describes the effect of their
escape upon Jonah, and closes by...
-
THE PROPHET'S NARROWNESS REBUKED
John 4:1-11
This chapter marks an era in the development of the outlook of the
Hebrew people. Here, upon its repentance, a heathen city was pardoned.
Clearly Jehovah...
-
The final picture of the controversy between Jonah and Jehovah reveals
most vividly, through Jonah, the attitude of the ancient people which
his story was intended to correct, and Jehovah's care for,...
-
But it displeased (a) Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
(a) Because by this he would be taken as a false prophet, and so the
name of God, which he preached, would be blasphemed....
-
Troubled. His concern was lest he should pass for a false prophet; or
rather lest God's word, by this occasion might come to be slighted and
disbelieved. (Challoner) --- He conjectured that God would...
-
CONTENTS
We have here a sad view of the mind of Jonah; the Lord's grace to
Nineveh excites the Prophet's displeasure. he is reproved by the Lord
under the figure of a gourd.
Jonah 4:1
We have not a...
-
Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a
peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely
Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
-
Gordo
I. INTRODUCTION
A. This morning we come to the 4th and final chapter of the book of
Jonah.
1. As far a Nineveh is concerned, the book could have ended with
chapter 3.
a) They repented, the L...
-
Jerome commends this grief of Jonah, and compares it to the holy zeal
of Paul when he wished himself to be an anathema for his brethren,
(Romans 9:3 :) for he denies that he grieved because God had sh...
-
The God of grace has compassion on the works of His hands, when they
humble themselves before Him and tremble at the hearing of His
righteous judgments. But Jonah, instead of caring for them, thinks
o...
-
BUT IT DISPLEASED JONAH EXCEEDINGLY, AND HE WAS VERY ANGRY. Jonah was
"mirabilis homo", as one calls him, an "amazing man"; the strangest,
oddest, and most out of the way man, for a good man and a pro...
-
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
Ver. 1. _But it displeased Jonah exceedingly_] _Mirabilis homo
profecto fuit Ionas,_ saith Winckelman here, as strange a man was
Jonah of a...
-
_But it_ The divine forbearance in sparing Nineveh; _displeased Jonah
exceedingly_ “Seeing that what he had foretold against the Ninevites
did not happen, he was afraid lest he should pass for a false...
-
1-4 What all the saints make matter of joy and praise, Jonah makes
the subject of reflection upon God; as if showing mercy were an
imperfection of the Divine nature, which is the greatest glory of it...
-
JONAH CHAPTER 4 Jonah, repining at God's mercy, JONAH 4:1, is reproved
by the type of a gourd, JONAH 4:4. BUT, Heb. _And, it_, the Divine
forbearance sparing the great and sinful Nineveh, DISPLEASED J...
-
Jonah 4:1 displeased H3415 (H8799) Jonah H3124 exceedingly H1419 H7451
angry H2734 (H8799)...
-
‘But it displeased Jonah greatly, and he was angry.'
Jonah was not at all pleased that God had had mercy on the Ninevites,
indeed he was more than displeased he was very angry. The greatness of
his a...
-
YHWH USES AN ILLUSTRATION IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE TO JONAH THE
REASONABLENESS OF HIS MERCY (JONAH 4:1).
The mercy of YHWH having been revealed in chapter 1 to the mariners,
in chapter 2 to Jonah, and...
-
JONAH 1-4
Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ.
I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among
different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the
similitude of the pro...
-
Jonah 4:1. _But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry._
A nice prophet this! Jonah was a man of a somewhat ugly disposition,
yet I think he has been misunderstood. He was the true ch...
-
You know all about Jonah's refusal to go upon the Lord's errand, and
how he was held to it, and carried to his work in a great fish as he
would not go by himself. Somehow or other, God will make his s...
-
CONTENTS: Jonah's displeasure over God's action toward Nineveh. The
sheltering gourd.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonah.
CONCLUSION: Though there be these who find it in their hearts to
quarrel with the goodnes...
-
Jonah 4:6. _A gourd._ Plants of this genera exceed all others in the
rapidity of their growth.
Jonah 4:11. _Six score thousand_ infants. By consequence, the elder
children and adults, must have swell...
-
_But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry._
THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN CHARITY
Why is Jonah so much offended and so very angry? Surely there is here
some great dishonour to God; or some...
-
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 4:1 Jonah’s Angry Prayer. The sixth episode
parallels the third (Jonah 1:17) and focuses on Jonah’s
self-centeredness and hypocrisy. Both episodes have the same
-
CRITICAL NOTES.] ANGRY] Lit. hot with anger; to burn inwardly: the
verb usually restricted to anger, but (Jonah 4:4; Jonah 4:9) rendered
to grieve. Jonah’s vexation grew to anger. Nineveh’s destructio...
-
EXPOSITION
JONAH 4:1
JONAH'S DISPLEASURE AND ITS CORRECTION.
JONAH 4:1
1. Jonah is grieved at the sparing of Nineveh, the expectation of
which had led to his former flight
-
CHAPTER VIII. THE DISPLEASURE OF JONAH AT THE PRESERVATION OF NINEVEH
FROM the effect produced on the mind of God by the repentance of
Nineveh toward him, we now pass to the effect produced on the min...
-
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he
prayed unto the LORD, and he said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this
what I said to you, when I was still in my own country? And this...
-
Acts 13:46; James 4:5; James 4:6; Jonah 4:9; Luke 15:28;...
-
It — The divine forbearance sparing Nineveh....