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Verse Jonah 4:11. _AND SHOULD NOT I SPARE NINEVEH_] In John 4:10 it
is said, _thou hast had pity_ on the gourd, אתה חסת _attah
CHASTA_; and here the Lord uses the same word, ואני לא אחוס
_veani lo AC...
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SHOULD I NOT SPARE? - literally “have pity” and so “spare.”
God waives for the time the fact of the repentance of Nineveh, and
speaks of those on whom man must have pity, those who never had any
share...
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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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SHOULD NOT I. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), no answer being
required.
ARE. exits. Hebrew. _yesh._ See note on Proverbs 8:21.
THAT CANNOT DISCERN, &C. Put by Hebrew Idiom (App-6), for little...
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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 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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SHOULD NOT I SPARE NINEVEH, &C.— It is generally calculated, that
the young children of any place are a fifth part of the inhabitants;
and, if we admit of that calculation, the whole number of inhabit...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DECLARATION OF JEHOVAH
TEXT: Jonah 4:11
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and should I not have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
more than six score thousand persons that c...
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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 you...
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MORE THAN... — This number of infants, 120,000, according to the
usual reckoning, gives a population of 600,000.
AND ALSO MUCH CATTLE. — This, which at first reads like an
anti-climax, is really, per...
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וַֽ אֲנִי֙ לֹ֣א אָח֔וּס עַל
־נִינְוֵ֖ה הָ עִ֣יר הַ גְּדֹולָ֑ה
אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֶשׁ ־בָּ֡הּ הַרְבֵּה֩...
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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 should (h) not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more
than sixscore thousand persons that (i) cannot discern between their
right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?
(h)...
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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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Now as to the number, Jonah mentions here twelve times ten thousand
men, and that is as we have said, one hundred and twenty thousand. God
shows here how paternally he cares for mankind. Every one of...
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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 SHOULD NOT I SPARE NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY?.... See Jonah 1:2;
what is such a gourd or plant to that?
WHEREIN ARE MORE THAN SIXSCORE THOUSAND PERSONS; or twelve myriads;
that is, twelve times te...
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And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than
sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand
and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?
Ver. 11. _An...
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_And should not I_ The God of infinite compassion; _spare Nineveh,
that great city?_ Wouldest thou have me to be less merciful to such a
large and populous city as Nineveh, than thou art to a shrub? S...
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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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AND SHOULD NOT; may not by virtue of my sovereignty, pity, spare, or
pardon if I will? or is there not good reason to incline me to do it,
and to justify my doing it? I; God of infinite compassions an...
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Jonah 4:11 pity H2347 (H8799) Nineveh H5210 great H1419 city H5892 are
H3426 more H7235 (H8687) twenty H8147 H6240 thousand H7239 persons
H120 discern H3045 (H8804) hand H3225 much H7227 livestock H92...
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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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NINEVEH
(_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...
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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 goodne...
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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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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.]
Jonah 4:11. Spare] Pity; Lit. to be affected by the sight of a thing;
then to be concerned; take pity or compassion upon one. Nineveh
contained an immense population, a great number...
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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, and complains of God's...
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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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Deuteronomy 1:39; Isaiah 1:18; Jonah 1:2; Jonah 3:2; Jonah 3:3; Jonah
4:1; Luke 15:28; Matthew 18:33; Psalms 104:14; Psalms 104:27;...
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I — The God of infinite compassions and goodness. That great city
— Wouldest thou have me less merciful to such a goodly city, than
thou art to a weed? Who cannot discern — Here are more than six —
sc...