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Verse Jonah 4:6. _AND THE LORD GOD PREPARED A GOURD_] I believe this
should be rendered in the preterpluperfect tense. The Lord HAD
prepared - this plant, קיקיון _kikayon_. It had in the course of
Go...
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AND THE LORD GOD PREPARED A GOURD - , (a palm-christ, English margin,
rightly.) . “God again commanded the gourd, as he did the whale,
willing only that this should be. Forthwith it springs up beautif...
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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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_prepared_ Rather, APPOINTED. And so in Jonah 4:7. See Jonah 1:17,
note.
_a gourd_ This is the only place in the Old Testament in which the
Hebrew word here translated _gourd_occurs. It is quite a dif...
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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 the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah,
that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his
grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
GOURD - Hebre...
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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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GOURD] most likely the bottle-gourd, often planted to grow over
trellis-work, whose broad leaves would form a good protection against
the sun....
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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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PREPARED. — See Note, Jonah 1:17.
A GOURD. — So the LXX. render the Hebrew _qiqaion,_ which, since the
time of Jerome, has been usually identified with the Arabic _el
keroa,_ the castor-oil tree (_Ric...
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וַ יְמַ֣ן יְהוָֽה ־אֱ֠לֹהִים
קִיקָיֹ֞ון וַ יּ
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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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And the LORD God prepared a (f) gourd, and made [it] to come up over
Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from
his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
(f) Which...
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The Lord God prepared an ivy. Hederam. In the Hebrew it is kikajon,
which some render a gourd; others a palmerist, or palma Christi.
(Challoner) --- This latter is now the common opinion. St.Jerome
ex...
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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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Before I proceed to treat on the contents of these verses, I will say
a few things on the word קיקיון, _kikiun_; for there were
formerly some disputes respecting this word. Some render it, a gourd;
(_...
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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 THE LORD GOD PREPARED A GOURD,.... So the Septuagint render the
word; but some say that a worm will not touch that; Jerom renders it
an ivy; but neither the gourd nor that rise upwards without som...
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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over
Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from
his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Ver. 6. _And...
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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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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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And the Lord God prepared a gourd, the castor-oil plant, commonly
called palm-crist, AND MADE IT TO COME UP OVER JONAH, the plant
growing up very rapidly, with its large leaves quickly casting a
pleas...
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GOURD:
Or, palmcrist. _Heb._ Kikajon
EXCEEDING GLAD:
_ Heb._ rejoiced with great joy...
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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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OLBHeb;
PREPARED; commanded that in the place where Jonah's booth stood, this
herb, or spreading plant, should spring up to be a shade when the
gathered boughs are withered. A GOURD: it is not certain...
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Jonah 4:6 LORD H3068 God H430 prepared H4487 (H8762) plant H7021 up
H5927 (H8799) Jonah H3124 shade...
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‘And YHWH God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah,
in order that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from
his evil situation.'
The shelter had clearly failed to protect J...
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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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PREPARED
Four prepared things. (Jonah 1:17); (Jonah 4:6); (Jonah 4:7); (Jonah
4:8)....
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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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_And the Lord God prepared a gourd._
THE EASTERN GOURD
Is there any gourd in Palestine of growth so rapid as to lay a
foundation for the statement that Jonah’s grew up in a night?
Certainly not. With...
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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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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 4:6 THE LORD GOD APPOINTED. This is the second
use of the verb “appoint” (see note on 1:17). DISCOMFORT (or
“evil”; see...
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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 Corinthians 7:30; Amos 6:13; Esther 5:9; Isaiah 39:2; Jonah 1:17;...
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Prepared — Commanded that in the place where Jonah's booth stood,
this spreading plant should spring up to be a shade when the gathered
boughs were withered. To deliver — To give some ease to his mind...