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Shouldn`t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can`t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
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God's Expansive Compassion
The book ends by contrasting Jonah's petty grief over a plant with God's profound care for an entire city. Commentators explain that God's mercy extends beyond just repentant adults to include over 120,000 innocent children and even "much cattle." This reveals a God whose compassion is vastly more expansive and tender than our own, encompassing all of His creation.
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Jonah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Should I not spare? — literally “have pity” and so “spare.” God waives for the time the fact of the repentance of Nineveh, and speaks of tho…
19th Century
Anglican
More than ...—This number of infants, 120,000, according to the usual reckoning, gives a population of 600,000.
Baptist
That great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand;
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16th Century
Protestant
Here God explains the design he had in suddenly raising up the gourd, and then in causing it to perish or wither through the gnawing of a worm; it …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city ? &c.] See (Jonah 1:2) (3:3) ; what is such a gourd or p…
Jonah went out of the city, yet remained nearby, as if he expected and desired its overthrow. Those who have fretful, uneasy spirits often create t…
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