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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…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
More than ...—This number of infants, 120,000, according to the usual reckoning, gives a population of 600,000.
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Then the LORD said, You have had pity on the gourd, for which you have not labored, nor made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
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 …
John Gill
JohnGill
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city ?
&c.] See (Jonah 1:2) (3:3) ; what is such a gourd or p…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes