But God, intending to teach Jonah a further lesson, prepared a worm, appointing it to that end, when the morning rose the next day, at the breaking of the dawn, and it smote the gourd that it withered, for it is a peculiarity of the castor-oil plant that it fades readily when injured.
Verse Jonah 4:7. _BUT GOD PREPARED A WORM_] By being eaten through the root, the plant, losing its nourishment, would soon wither; and this was the case in the present instance....
WHEN THE MORNING ROSE - , i. e., in the earliest dawn, before the actual sunrise. For one day Jonah enjoyed the refreshment of the palm-christ. In early dawn, it still promised the shadow; just ere it...
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...
WORM. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for. blight of such; as in Deuteronomy 28:39. They were appointed during the night, and came at sunrise....
_a worm_ This of course may mean a single worm which either by attacking the root or gnawing the stem, still young and tender and not yet hardened by maturity, suddenly destroyed the palmchrist. It is...
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 GOURD VINE AND A WORM -- JONAH 4:6-8_ : God continued to love his pouting prophet so He "prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver...
DISCOURSE: 1203 JONAH’S GOURD John 4:5. So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would be...
SO JONAH WENT OUT, &C.— _Now Jonah had gone out—and he sat,_ &c. The author of the _Observations_ asks upon this difficult passage, Did Jonah make himself a booth of boughs, in which to wait the event...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DEMONSTRATION BY JEHOVAH TEXT: Jonah 4:4-10 4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of...
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. BUT GOD PREPARED A WORM - of a particular kind, deadly to the ricinus. A small worm at the root...
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...
A WORM. — Possibly to be taken collectively, as in Isaiah 14:11, for a swarm of caterpillars....
וַ יְמַ֤ן הָֽ אֱלֹהִים֙ תֹּולַ֔עַת בַּ עֲלֹ֥ו
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,...
I cannot sufficiently admire, nor adore, the condescending benignity of the Lord, in the tender method the Lord took to recover the Prophet from his petulance. Reader! look at the Lord in those gracio...
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...
_THE PREPARATIONS OF GOD_ ‘The Lord God prepared.’ Jonah 4:6 There is often great looseness and want of precision in our thoughts about God and His actings. And these always produce their natural e...
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...
But it is said afterwards that _a worm was prepared_. We see here also, that what seemed to happen by chance was yet directed by the hidden providence of God. Should any one say, that what is here nar...
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 GOD PREPARED A WORM WHEN THE MORNING ROSE THE NEXT DAY,.... That God that prepared this plant to rise so suddenly, almost as soon prepared a worm to destroy it; for it rose up one night, continued...
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. Ver. 7. _But God prepared a worm_] All occurrences are to be ascribed not to nature, fate, or fort...
_Doest thou well to be angry?_ What a mild reproof was this from God, for such a passionate behaviour as Jonah manifested! Here the prophet experienced that Jehovah was _a gracious God, merciful, and...
5-11 Jonah went out of the city, yet remained near at hand, as if he expected and desired its overthrow. Those who have fretful, uneasy spirits, often make troubles for themselves, that they may stil...
BUT GOD, by the same power which caused the gourd suddenly, and to Jonah's great joy, to spring, grow, and spread itself as a canopy, PREPARED also a WORM, what, is not said, some contemptible grub th...
Jonah 4:7 morning H7837 dawned H5927 (H8800) day H4283 God H430 prepared H4487 (H8762) worm H8438 damaged...
‘But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, so that it withered.' However, next morning a worm ‘prepared by God' chewed away at the gourd with the result that...
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...
John 4:6 I. Jonah's gourd was all but certainly the palm-Christ, so-called because it is a five-leaved plant, one leaf of which outspread resembles a man's hand. It was thought to represent the hand o...
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 God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day._ THE PREPARED WORM Just when Jonah had felt the delight of the shadowing foliage, and had begun to promise himself a most comfortable retr...
_So Jonah went out of the city._ GOD’S EXPOSTULATION WITH JONAH We may presume that Jonah had two reasons for going out of Nineveh. One was, that he might provide for his personal safety. The other,...
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 4:5 Jonah’s Lesson about Compassion. The seventh and final episode has no parallel and thus stands out as the climax of the story. ⇐
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
In transcribing the account of this transaction, we must take leave to substitute the Septuagint rendering, for that in the common version, of the peculiar phrase explained in a note at the beginning...
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...
Isaiah 40:6; Job 1:21; Joel 1:12; Psalms 102:10; Psalms 30:6;...
Prepared — By the same power which caused the gourd suddenly to spring, and spread itself. It smote — Which early next morning, bit the root, so that the whole gourd withered....