Jonah 4:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 15:28
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
Jonah 4:9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Jonah 4:4
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

See here, I. How unjustly Jonah quarrelled with God for his mercy to Nineveh, upon their repentance. This gives us occasion to suspect that Jonah had only delivered the message of wrath against the Ninevites, and had not at all assisted or encouraged them in their repentance, as one would think he should have done; for when they did repent, and found mercy, 1. Jonah grudged them the mercy they fou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Jon 4:1-11. Jonah Frets at God’s Mercy to Nineveh: Is Reproved by the Type of a Gourd. 1. angry--literally, “hot,” probably, with grief or vexation, rather than anger [Fairbairn]. How sad the contrast between God’s feeling on the repentance of Nineveh towards Him, and Jonah’s feeling on the repentance of God towards Nineveh. Strange in one who was himself a monument of mercy on his repentance! We…