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Verse Jonah 4:10. _WHICH CAME UP IN A NIGHT_] St. Jerome, speaking of
this plant, the _kikayon_, assigns to it an extraordinary rapidity of
growth. It delights in a sandy soil, and in a few days what...
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THOU HADST PITY ON THE PALM-CHRIST - In the feeling of our common
mortality, the soul cannot but yearn over decay. Even a drooping
flower is sad to look on, so beautiful, so frail. It belongs to this...
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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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HAST HAD PITY ON: or, wouldst have spared: same word as in Jonah 4:11.
CAME UP IN. NIGHT. was the son of. night.
PERISHED IN. NIGHT. perished as the son of. night....
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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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_for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow_ The
principle on which the contrast implied by these words rests is that
the effort which we have bestowed upon any object, the degree in...
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.] The final appeal is forcible and conclusive, a grand and worthy
climax to this remarkable book. The contrasts are striking and
designed: THOU and I (the pronouns are emphatic, and each of them
intr...
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_JONAH'S UNCONCERN FOR THE CITY -- JONAH 4:9-11:_ Jonah was concerned
about the gourd vine but was unconcerned about the people of the city.
God said to Jonah, "You pity the plant, for which you did n...
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THOU HAST HAD PITY ON THE GOURD— God confutes the impatient grief of
Jonah by a similitude. "You acquiesced in that plant, which afforded
you a shade; I acquiesce in the repentance of the Ninevites. T...
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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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Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which
thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a
night, and perished in a night:
Thou hast had pity on the gourd...
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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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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה אַתָּ֥ה חַ֨סְתָּ֙
עַל ־הַ
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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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CHAPTER IV....
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Reader! behold the conclusion! and say shall we not in the view of it
cry out with the Prophet, Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of...
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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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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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Here God explains the design he had in suddenly raising up the gourd,
and then in causing it to perish or wither through the gnawing of a
worm; it was to teach Jonah that misconduct towards the Ninevi...
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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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THEN SAID THE LORD, THOU HAST HAD PITY ON THE GOURD,.... Or, "hast
spared it" c; that is, would have spared it, had it lain in his power,
though but a weeds and worthless thing:
FOR THE WHICH THOU HA...
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Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which
thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a
night, and perished in a night:
Ver. 10. _Then said the Lord_] He...
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_Then said the Lord_ Jonah having thus showed his love and pity for
the gourd, God proceeds to judge him out of his own mouth; _Thou hast
had pity on the gourd_, &c. Thou deplorest the loss of the gou...
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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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Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which
thou hast not labored, which had cost him no toil to rear, NEITHER
MADEST IT GROW, Jonah not being obliged so much as to water it; WH...
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HAD PITY:
Or, spared
CAME UP IN A NIGHT:
_ Heb._ was the son of the night...
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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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THEN, when Jonah had showed his affection of love and pity to the
gourd, SAID THE LORD; showed Jonah the little reason he had to concern
himself for the gourd, and the great reason God had on his side...
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Jonah 4:10 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) pity H2347 (H8804) plant H7021
labored H5998 (H8804) grow...
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‘And YHWH said, “You have had regard for the gourd, for which you
have not laboured, nor made it grow, which came up in a night, and
perished in a night, and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that...
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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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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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John 4:9
Notice:
I. The sinfulness of absorbing passion. Its sinfulness is illustrated:
(1) By Jonah's contempt of life. Nineveh was not to be destroyed as he
had prophesied, and his pride was wounde...
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John 4:10
The Divine argument for mercy in these last verses is, if we may say
so without irreverence, a masterpiece of Divine skill and simplicity.
There are many single texts of the New Testament w...
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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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_Thou hast had pity on the gourd._
JONAH’S GOURD
There is no mention of Israel in this Book of Jonah. It is concerned
solely about the welfare of a foreign nation. There can be no doubt
that the spir...
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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 4:10 PERISHED. Finally Jonah expresses concern
over something perishing. Sadly, it is only the plant, not the 120,000
people who do not know their right hand from their left
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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 20:31; Genesis 17:12...
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Laboured — Thou didst not set it. Grow — Nor didst thou water or
give growth to it....