11And 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?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. …
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. …
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)Jonah persists here in his discontent; for the beginning of strife both with God and man is as the letting forth of waters , the breach grows wider and wider, and, when passion gets head, bad is made worse; it should therefore be silenced and suppressed at first. We have here, I. Jonah’s sullen expectation of the fate of Nineveh. We may suppose that the Ninevites, giving credit to the message he b…
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