Jonah 4:11

And was not, I, to spare Nineveh, the great city,—wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand human beings, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, besides much cattle?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

10Then said Yahweh, Thou, wouldest have spared the gourd, for which thou hadst not toiled, neither hadst thou made it grow,—which, as the off-spring of a night, came up, and, as the offspring of a night, perished;

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Cross References

Genesis 9:10and with every living soul that is with you, of birds, of tame-beasts and of all wild-beasts of the earth that are with you,—of all coming forth out of the ark, even to all wild-beasts of the earth;

Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness, is like mighty mountains, and, thy just decrees, are a great resounding deep,—Man and beast, thou savest, O Yahweh!

Psalms 104:27All of them, for thee, do wait, That thou mayest give them their food in its season;

Psalms 145:9Good is Yahweh to all, and, his tender compassions, are over all his works.

Isaiah 1:18Come, I pray you, and let us settle the dispute Saith Yahweh,—Though your sins be found like scarlet, As snow, shall they be made white, Though they appear red like crimson, As wool, shall they become.

Jonah 3:2Arise, get thee unto Nineveh, the great city,—and cry against it the cry that I am bidding thee.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 4:6-11

The Prophet's Discontent; The Withering of the Prophet's Gourd; God's Remonstrance with Jonah. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 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. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning… Read the whole commentary →

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