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Jonah 4:7

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"But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered."

  • Jonah 4:7 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 4:7. _BUT GOD PREPARED A WORM_] By being eaten through the root, the plant, losing its nourishment, would soon wither; and this was the case in the present instance....

  • Jonah 4:7 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEN THE MORNING ROSE - , i. e., in the earliest dawn, before the actual sunrise. For one day Jonah enjoyed the refreshment of the palm-christ. In early dawn, it still promised the shadow; just ere it...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WORM. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for. blight of such; as in Deuteronomy 28:39. They were appointed during the night, and came at sunrise....

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. BUT GOD PREPARED A WORM - of a particular kind, deadly to the ricinus. A small worm at the root...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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 you...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A WORM. — Possibly to be taken collectively, as in Isaiah 14:11, for a swarm of caterpillars....

  • Jonah 4:7 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְמַ֤ן הָֽ אֱלֹהִים֙ תֹּולַ֔עַת בַּ עֲלֹ֥ות הַ שַּׁ֖חַר לַֽ † מָּחֳרָ֑ת וַ תַּ֥ךְ...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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,...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    But it is said afterwards that _a worm was prepared_. We see here also, that what seemed to happen by chance was yet directed by the hidden providence of God. Should any one say, that what is here nar...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT GOD PREPARED A WORM WHEN THE MORNING ROSE THE NEXT DAY,.... That God that prepared this plant to rise so suddenly, almost as soon prepared a worm to destroy it; for it rose up one night, continued...

  • Jonah 4:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. Ver. 7. _But God prepared a worm_] All occurrences are to be ascribed not to nature, fate, or fort...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT GOD, by the same power which caused the gourd suddenly, and to Jonah's great joy, to spring, grow, and spread itself as a canopy, PREPARED also a WORM, what, is not said, some contemptible grub th...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 4:7 morning H7837 dawned H5927 (H8800) day H4283 God H430 prepared H4487 (H8762) worm H8438 damaged H5221 (H8686) plant H7021 withered H3001 (H8799) prepared - Job 1:21; Psalms 30:6-7,...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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 goodne...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _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,...

  • Jonah 4:7 - The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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, and complains of God's...

  • Jonah 4:7 - The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - 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...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 40:6; Job 1:21; Joel 1:12; Psalms 102:10; Psalms 30:6; Psalms 30:7; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 90:6...

  • Jonah 4:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Prepared — By the same power which caused the gourd suddenly to spring, and spread itself. It smote — Which early next morning, bit the root, so that the whole gourd withered....

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