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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DEMONSTRATION BY JEHOVAH
TEXT: Jonah 4:4-10
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And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
5
Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A WORM. — Possibly to be taken collectively, as in Isaiah 14:11, for
a swarm of caterpillars....
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וַ יְמַ֤ן הָֽ אֱלֹהִים֙ תֹּולַ֔עַת
בַּ עֲלֹ֥ו
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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JONAH'S DISPLEASURE AND THE LORD'S REPROOF.
That Jonah was easily swayed by his emotions is evident from the
entire story of his book, but appears particularly from the last
Chapter. At the same time...
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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...
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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...
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Jonah 4:7 morning H7837 dawned H5927 (H8800) day H4283 God H430
prepared H4487 (H8762) worm H8438 damaged...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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,...
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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.
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 40:6; Job 1:21; Joel 1:12; Psalms 102:10; Psalms 30:6;...
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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....