
Jon 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
a gracious God
repentest
Scofield Zechariah 8:14, note.
Jon 4:6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
prepared a gourd
Four prepared things. Jonah 1:17; 4:6, 7, 8
Jon 4:7 Jonah 4:7 KJV - 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
prepared a worm
Four prepared things. Jonah 1:17; 4:6, 7, 8
Jon 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
prepared a vehement east wind
Four prepared things. Jonah 1:17; 4:6, 7, 8
It is better for me to die than to live
Cf. 1 Kings 19:4-8. Taken as a lesson in service we have in Jonah a servant,
Jon 4:11 And 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?
Nineveh
Scofield Nahum 1:1, note.
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