Jonah 4:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 4

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?

Jonah 4:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 18:33
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms 145:8-9
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. …
Luke 15:28-32
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. …
Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

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Animals Atheism Attributes of God Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation God

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 br…

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

(vv. 11)

10-11. The main lesson of the book. If Jonah so pities a plant which cost him no toil to rear, and which is so short lived and valueless, much more must Jehovah pity those hundreds of thousands of immortal men and women in great Nineveh whom He has made with such a display of creative power, especially when many of them repent, and seeing that, if all in it were destroyed, “more than six score tho…