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Jonah 4:2

Was not this — Did I not think of this? That thy pardon would contradict my preaching.

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See also Jonah 4:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 4:2. _I KNOW THAT THOU_ ART _A GRACIOUS GOD_] Exodus 34:6....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HE PRAYED UNTO THE LORD - Jonah, at least, did not murmur or complain of God. He complained to God of Himself. He expostulates with Him. Shortsighted indeed and too wedded to his own will! Yet his...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. THEREFORE. FLED. hasted to flee. The reason follows, as explained in note on Jonah 4:1. I KNEW. This was well known, from Jehovah's revelation of Himself. Jonah kn...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _he prayed_ His better mind had not altogether forsaken him. He did not as before flee from the presence of the Lord, but betook himself to Him, even in his irritation and discontent. _I pray thee_ A...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1202 THE MERCY OF GOD John 4:2. _I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil_. IN the parable of the Prodigal So...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and m...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּתְפַּלֵּ֨ל אֶל ־יְהוָ֜ה וַ יֹּאמַ֗ר אָנ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto (b) Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is this Jonah, who offered such a lovely prayer but a little before? Can it be, the same man? Alas! Reader! what is Jonah, what is any man, if for a moment left without the influences of grace?...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It seems by no means befitting that Jonah should have said here that he prayed; for prayer ought to be calm; but he confesses that his mind was in a state of excitement. As then anger was burning with...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE PRAYED UNTO THE LORD,.... But in a very different manner from his praying in the fish's belly: this was a very disorderly prayer, put up in the hurry of his spirit, and in the heat of passion:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he prayed unto the Lord and said, I pray Thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, the argument which he had used within himself, WHEN I WAS YET IN MY COUNTRY? when lie first received the commission t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND HE PRAYED; in a strange distempered humour sets about this work, and accordingly manageth it; when he designs to pray, his turbulent affections hurry him into unseemly contests and quarrels with G...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 4:2 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Ah H577 LORD H3068 said H1697 country...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And he prayed to YHWH, and said, “I pray you, O YHWH, was not this what I said when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I rushed to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and me...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And he prayed unto the Lord, and said._ THE SECRET OF JONAH In this verse we have the key to the whole Book of Jonah; the secret, the motive both of his character and of his mission. God had sent th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 4:2 This is Jonah’s second prayer. The repetition of PRAYED TO THE LORD (see Jonah 2:1) invites the reader to compare the two....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:4; Amos 7:3; Amos 7:6; Exodus 32:14; Exodus 34:6;...

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