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Verse Jonah 4:8. _A VEHEMENT EAST WIND_] Which was of itself of a
_parching, withering_ nature; and the _sun_, in addition, made it
intolerable. These winds are both scorching and suffocating in the...
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GOD PREPARED A VEHEMENT - o (The English margin following the Chaldee,
“silent,” i. e., “sultry”).
EAST WIND - The winds in the East, blowing over the sand-deserts,
intensely increase the distress of...
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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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VEHEMENT. silent, still. Hence, sultry. Occurs only here. Not. "late"
word, but not required to be used before this.
EAST WIND. hot wind. Not the same kind as in western climes. Ref to
Pent (Ex Jon 1...
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_a vehement east wind_ Margin, _silent_. This, or _sultry_, R.V., is
probably the true meaning of the word. "We have two kinds of sirocco,"
writes Dr Thomson, "one accompanied with vehement wind which...
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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
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...
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a
vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for...
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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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VEHEMENT] RV 'sultry' = the sirocco.
9. See on Jon 4:4. Jonah transfers his pity for himself, as an
ill-used prophet, to the gourd which likewise has been hardly treated.
A wonderfully true touch of...
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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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VEHEMENT EAST WIND. — The derivation from a root meaning _silent_
(see margin) points to what travellers describe as the “quiet kind
of sirocco,” which is often more overpowering than the more
boister...
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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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_Hot. Hebrew also, "eastern and sultry," (Haydock) or silent, (Calmet)
which instead of refreshing, served only to increase the heat,
(Haydock) and to raise dust. Septuagint, Syriac, &c., agree with t...
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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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It is now added, _that when the sun arose the day following, a wind
was prepared. _We here learn the same thing, — that winds do not of
themselves rise, or by chance, but are stirred up by a Divine po...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN THE SUN DID ARISE,.... After that the gourd
was smitten and withered; when it was not only risen, but shone out
with great force and heat:
THAT GOD PREPARED A VEHEMENT EAST W...
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a
vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better fo...
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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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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a
vehement east wind, blowing with a sultry heat; AND THE SUN BEAT UPON
THE HEAD OF JONAH THAT HE FAINTED, overcome with the heat, AND WI...
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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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VEHEMENT:
Or, silent...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS, after all these passages both in chastising and
refreshing Jonah, and after all Jonah's deportment under them, but
more immediately after the withering of the gourd and the loss o...
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Jonah 4:8 sun H8121 arose H2224 (H8800) God H430 prepared H4487
(H8762) vehement H2759 east H6921 wind...
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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...
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‘And it came about, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry
east wind, and the sun beat Jonah's head so that he fainted, and
requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for...
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FAINTED
Compare (1 Kings 19:4).
Taken as a lesson in service we have in Jonah a servant,
(1) disobedient, (Jonah 1:1);
(2) afflicted, (Jonah 1:12);
(3) praying ...
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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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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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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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_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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_He fainted and wished in himself to die._
JONAH’S WOE
It would be difficult to say whether the tokens of God’s holy
justice, or of His abounding mercy, be the more numerous in the
Scriptures. But al...
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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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1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 15:25; 2 Samuel 15:26; Ezekiel 19:12;...
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A east wind — A dry, scorching, blasting wind. Fainted — Overcome
by the heat. Better to die — But Jonah must be wiser, and humbler,
and more merciful too, e'er he die. Before God hath done with him,...