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Jonah 4:6-11

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6 So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over * Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely * happy about the plant.
7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it 1withered.
8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching 2east wind, and the 3sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, "4Death is better to me than life."
9 Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."
10 Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight * and perished overnight *.
11 "Should I not 5have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 * * persons who do not 6know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many 7animals?"
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Jonah 4:6-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 4

This chapter gives us an account of Jonah's displeasure at the repentance of the Ninevites, and at the Lord's showing mercy unto them, Jon 4:1; the angry prayer of Jonah upon it, Jon 4:2,3; the Lord's gentle reproof of him for it, Jon 4:4; his conduct upon that, Jon 4:5; the gourd prepared for him; its rise, usefulness, and destruction, which raised different passions in Jonah, Jon 4:6-8; the improvement the Lord made of this to rebuke Jonah, for his displicency at the mercy he showed to the Ninevites, and to convict him of his folly, Jon 4:9-11.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

  • 1. Joel 1:12
  • 2. Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15
  • 3. Psalms 121:6; Isaiah 49:10
  • 4. Jonah 4:3
  • 5. Jonah 3:10
  • 6. Deuteronomy 1:39; Isaiah 7:16
  • 7. Psalms 36:6

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. Probably a castor oil plant, and so in vv 7, 9 and 10
  • [b]. Lit "greatly"
  • [c]. Probably a castor oil plant, and so in vv 7, 9 and 10
  • [d]. Lit "was a son of a night"
  • [e]. Lit "a son of a night"
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